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This doesn’t even make sense… unless you think all opinions out there carry roughly the same weight?
Did you mean something else by "overall"? Over... shareholders perhaps?
But since the opinions of people aren’t anywhere near the same value… comparing it your way is nonsensical.
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I was genuinely (maybe naively) impressed when google pushed for https everywhere. Maybe there were nefarious reason behind it that I missed, but it did a lot of good for the average web user. LLM companies could easily have made a similar impact by leaning on accessibility tooling. Pushing companies to better support ARIA standards online would have made a huge impact for the better. Heck, throw a little of that LLM…
> LLM companies could easily have made a similar impact by leaning on accessibility tooling. Pushing companies to better support ARIA standards online would have made a huge impact for the better. If anything, they'd have the reverse impact, unfortunately. The thing is, the companies whose sites/apps/resources would be accessed by LLMs don't want this . That's the entire point of the article we're discussing. All I'm…
Expedia makes sense, for example, and it'd be nice if they had more of a reason to improve accessibility on their site rather than building out and maintaining an API service specifically for MCP.
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I remember when the internet was collaboratorative rather than competitive. I think then tech companies got so big that they ran out of scientists and engineers and had to hire fairground hucksters.
Yes and no. The internet was collaborative when it was very small. You still had islands like AOL and Compuserve and such. Then as it got bigger the big islands like AOL broke, and the views started going to larger and larger websites (think things like news sites). These sites had to work with vendors (Microsoft/Apache) to be able to support the load without crashing. While this is occurring hardware got a lot faste…
Big tech companies are full of extremly competent people who for the most part cant get shit done. A hand full of cooperating people armed with curiosity and the desire to make something useful can do things tens to thousands of times better.
What are these websites they make that need hundreds of requests to show a bit of text? I cant view source without repeatedly screaming from laughter.
Maybe the answer to the riddle is to force the pattern and make usefulness as well as asking for help requirements for participation.
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Precisely what kneecapped the semantic web. Why make it easier for the competition to take all of your data?
I remember when the internet was collaboratorative rather than competitive. I think then tech companies got so big that they ran out of scientists and engineers and had to hire fairground hucksters.
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There’s a Weather widget. It doesn’t have ads. There’s a podcast app. It doesn’t have ads. There’s an RSS app. I paid $7.99 for it, once. It doesn’t have ads. The entire Android ecosystem is built around people not paying for anything ever, where the iOS ecosystem, people pay for things. And honestly, it’s a way nicer experience.
Idk why you're assuming I put up with ads for any of those things. Believe it or not, the $ vs. ads trade-off is alive and well on Android