The Degraded Search Engine

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@yacc143 I agree! I remember exactly during a coding sprint with the Krita team back in 2018 having this discussion around the table and each one sharing what they used because it started to be impossible to just find quickly issues, debug info, things in various documentation, etc...

But the AI era really made everything go faster downhill. I'm convinced by that.

[nartance@framapiaf.org]

@orange_lux @davidrevoy xD oui certaines entrées en anglais ne correspondaient pas trop à la recherche une fois traduis (onion ring -> rondelle d'oignons; rondelle qui sort avec anneau, peu probable) ; du coup bah on sort la carte Pérusse x)

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@ToonLink hey! In my first sketch, I designed big arms on the top of the machine (to pick books around) but it felt complex and also it had something a bit agressive or dangerous.

I then decided it was a sort of teleportation thing, yep. That's one advantage of having a setup in a magic university

[milla@mastodon.art]

@davidrevoy @hacknorris @wikipedia Magipedia, same word feeling with minimal change

Or something with grimoire, Grimopedia? Wikimoire?

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy Sure, the irony is, that today I have to use a mix of a high quality deep research (yes LLM based) assistant (fine tuned, it starts with: all claims must come with double checked references, to guard against hallucinations, ...), Qwant, and for some stuff when the size of the index matters still old Google (manually, by agent to pick out the truffles in the pigsty, or custom scripted filters to find what I look for.)

Yes, it's an adverse environment.

[greytheearthling@fe.disroot.org]

@sunbeam_rider @davidrevoy @jordan FYI Bubbles is coded by AI: https://bubbles.town/faq#:~:text=claude

[brotherwolf@mathstodon.xyz]

@davidrevoy @scottytrees

Perhaps more Inspector Gadget than Columbo?

[pascal_delrot@pouet.chapril.org]

@davidrevoy Nice highlight !

[lazcht@sakurajima.moe]

@davidrevoy what's your number one search engine rn?

i use duckduckgo but it's kinda annoying that my country block it so i have to use cloudflare

[davidrevoy@framapiaf.org]

@lazcht Same for the search engine; DDG + ublock Origin on Firefox, and some AI additional blocklist. It's not that I particularly like it, it just remained there as the "less terrible option" and kind of stuck this way in my habits.
But I had a lot of suggestion after this episode, so I'll study them.

[lmgenealogy@mstdn.ca]

@Zelda @Linux @davidrevoy Thanks for posting. I've seen a number of such lists and they're incredibly helpful. There are many people who understand the need to get off US tech and have no idea how. (The other overwhelming task: How to convince people like my husband and son that it actually matters.)

[simondev@jasette.facil.services]

@davidrevoy @xarvos thanks!!! i didn't know

[ryunoki@layer8.space]

@Longplay_Games @davidrevoy @scottytrees

You know, Leonie Swann wrote Gray a couple years ago:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54877903-gray
(Goodreads appear to be the only non-German source here).

[ryunoki@layer8.space]

@davidrevoy @Konqi

Is https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1099/keeper-of-forbidden-knowledge playing in the same universe?

[jordan@mastodon.subj.am]

@greytheearthling @davidrevoy @sunbeam_rider "For writing the code itself, I use Claude Code as a coding assistant during development. That is a tool used to produce the source, not a system the running site depends on. The deployed Bubbles never makes calls to any AI service at runtime. "

Disappointing, but not to take away from the premise.

[linux@fairy.id]

@Zelda @lmgenealogy @davidrevoy

Thanks for the shutout. Always looking to expand that list too.

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@Zelda @lmgenealogy @davidrevoy