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You don't think people getting scammed is part of the economy?

But you can have genuinely helpful agents in your attack network. Agents that create helpful pages and get linked by other helpful pages but then later link to malicious pages. It all follows when the cost of page creation goes to zero.

Page rank is trivially gamed by agents. You can make some malicious and some not malicious and have them link to each other.

That makes sense, but maybe the UX problem runs a bit deeper. Maybe contacts apps should surface websites higher in the UI for saved businesses?

Running a small website with a calendar booking link just sounds much easier, cheaper, less error prone, and a better UX than running a voice LLM that is connected to a RAG and calendar. And I still don't think the technology around us has been built to support small websites or small businesses.

Why not use something like Calendly? I am very much of the opinion that text/voice is just the wrong UI for this interaction

Why is talking to a robot preferred? I would much rather have a voicemail with an introduction message that says "See website and send email"

Why can't they just vibe code a uv replacement?

You do understand that the above comment is talking about how the use and reliance on LLMs is what centralizes power right? It's great people can build these tools, but if the means to build these tools are controlled by three central companies where does that leave us?

That's a beautiful Kafkatrap you've constructed. Not much of an argument though. Maybe there's another explanation for this though. Perhaps you think you know much more about different fields than you actually do?

What fields rely only on jargon manipulation to produce papers?

If you're making apps for yourself, sure. But the purpose of a landing page is to convey information to humans. Slopping together some drivel to attempt the appearance of professionalism isn't just lazy, it's dishonest. Have some respect for the things you make and the people who may interact with them. And if you don't want to write boilerplate or copy: don't!

> Writing copy is painfully time consuming

I literally do not understand this sentiment. Do you not enjoy anything that takes time to do? Do you not enjoy putting time in for things that other people will look at?

> I know it'll write better copy than me

If this is the case I am desperately pleading with you to please read and write more. If you think the copy on this page is passable, let alone good, please read more.

And you know those tests are correct how?

And you're saying that will work for an entire book?

How?

I'm guessing you're American?

Do you think the product is not the code?

Why do you have a backlog then? If a current AI can do 100% of it then just run it over the weekend and close everything

Alternatively: this is an America problem. I'm outside of America and I've been fielding more interviews than ever in the past 3 months. YMMV but the leading indicator of slowed down hiring can come from so many things. Including companies just waiting to see how much LLMs affect SWE positions.

What is the hard evidence?

Edit: What I mean by this is there may be some circumstantial evidence (less hiring for juniors, more AI companies getting VC funding). We currently have no _hard_ evidence that programming has had a substantial speed increase/deskilling from LLMs yet. Any actual __science__ on this has yet to show this. But please, if you have _hard_ evidence on this topic I would love to see it.

With the Iran example, it's an interesting world we live in where the design of an emoji by some of the largest companies in the world can support or detract recognition of new states. Especially with some of these tech companies bending the knee to the current US administration I could imagine a world where there are executive orders to say, remove the Greenland flag, or change the design of the Venezuela flag.

Well you could say that every educated country is far better informed about the US than vice versa.

If your takeaway from my comment was "this guy thinks investigative journalism must be written" I would suggest reading the comment again.

It's a step beyond that. Where people who only consume the easily digestible content don't believe there is a source to any of it

I think you've never read real investigative journalism before

What do you mean "backed by"

My point being, maybe other things are foundational to building a romantic life upon. Not saying it is a must but building friendships with all sorts of people will generally help with many aspects of life

Perhaps that is part of the problem. Talking to women outside of romantic interest might be a good first step

Alternatively, think about asking the women in your life what they want

What's protecting smaller online spaces from AI?