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"Claude for Your Brain" by 2030?
I don’t know if this will make anything better. Internet is now filled with ai generated text, picture or videos. Like we havent had enough already, it is becaming more and more. We make ai agents to talk to each other. Someone will make ai to generate a form, many other will use ai to fill that form. Even worst, some people will fill millions of forms in matter of second. What is left is the empty feeling of having…
I am starting to see this age of internet-for-robots-by-robots as our second chance to detach from those devices and start living irl again.
I don’t know if this will make anything better. Internet is now filled with ai generated text, picture or videos. Like we havent had enough already, it is becaming more and more. We make ai agents to talk to each other. Someone will make ai to generate a form, many other will use ai to fill that form. Even worst, some people will fill millions of forms in matter of second. What is left is the empty feeling of having…
It’s wild to me that people see this as bad. The point of the form is not in the filling. You shouldn't want to fill out a form. If you could accomplish your task without the busywork, why wouldn’t you? If you could interact with the world on your terms, rather than in the enshitified way monopoly platforms force on you, why wouldn't you? And yeah, if you could consume content in the way you want, rather than the way…
There's taking away the busywork such as hand washing every dish and instead using a dishwasher.
Then there is this where, rather than have any dishes, a cadre of robots comes by and drops a morsel of food in your mouth for every bite you take.
I built a very similar extension [1] a couple of months ago that supports a wide range of models, including Claude, and enables them to take control of a user's browser using tools for mouse and keyboard actions, observation, etc. It's a fun little project to look at to understand how this type of thing works. It's clear to me that the tech just isn't there yet. The information density of a web page with standard rep…
Totally agree. This was the thesis behind MCP-B (now WebMCP https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP)
HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403
DOM and visual parsing are dead ends for browser automation. Not saying models are bad; they are great. The web is just not designed for them at all. It's designed for humans, and humans, dare I say, are pretty impressive creatures.
Providing an API contract between extensions and websites via MCP allows an AI to interact with a website as a first-class citizen. It just requires buy-in from website owners.
It's being proposed as a web standard: > https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp
I don’t know if this will make anything better. Internet is now filled with ai generated text, picture or videos. Like we havent had enough already, it is becaming more and more. We make ai agents to talk to each other. Someone will make ai to generate a form, many other will use ai to fill that form. Even worst, some people will fill millions of forms in matter of second. What is left is the empty feeling of having…
It’s wild to me that people see this as bad. The point of the form is not in the filling. You shouldn't want to fill out a form. If you could accomplish your task without the busywork, why wouldn’t you? If you could interact with the world on your terms, rather than in the enshitified way monopoly platforms force on you, why wouldn't you? And yeah, if you could consume content in the way you want, rather than the way…
I don’t know if this will make anything better. Internet is now filled with ai generated text, picture or videos. Like we havent had enough already, it is becaming more and more. We make ai agents to talk to each other. Someone will make ai to generate a form, many other will use ai to fill that form. Even worst, some people will fill millions of forms in matter of second. What is left is the empty feeling of having…
It’s wild to me that people see this as bad. The point of the form is not in the filling. You shouldn't want to fill out a form. If you could accomplish your task without the busywork, why wouldn’t you? If you could interact with the world on your terms, rather than in the enshitified way monopoly platforms force on you, why wouldn't you? And yeah, if you could consume content in the way you want, rather than the way…
Everyone says this, and it feels like a wholly unserious way to terminate the thinking and end the conversation.
Is the slop problem meaningfully worse now that we have AI? Yes: I’m coming across much more deceptively framed or fluffed up content than I used to. Is anyone proposing any (actually credible, not hand wavy microtransaction schemes) method of fixing the incentives? No.
So should we do some sort of First Amendment-violating ultramessy AI ban? I don’t want that to happen, but people are mad, and if we don’t come up with a serious and credible way to fix this, then people who care less than us will take it upon themselves to solve it, and the “First Amendment-violating ultramessy AI ban” is what we’re gonna get.
Most browser extensions you need to manually enable in incognito mode. This is an extension that should be disabled in normal mode and only enabled in incognito mode!
I built a very similar extension [1] a couple of months ago that supports a wide range of models, including Claude, and enables them to take control of a user's browser using tools for mouse and keyboard actions, observation, etc. It's a fun little project to look at to understand how this type of thing works. It's clear to me that the tech just isn't there yet. The information density of a web page with standard rep…
> It's clear to me that the tech just isn't there yet. Totally agree. This was the thesis behind MCP-B (now WebMCP https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP ) HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403 DOM and visual parsing are dead ends for browser automation. Not saying models are bad; they are great. The web is just not designed for them at all. It's designed for humans, and humans, dare I say, are prett…
Damn straight. Humanism in the age of tech obsession seems to be contrarian. But when it takes billions of dollars to match a 5 year-old’s common sense, maybe we should be impressed by the 5 year old. They are amazing.