I think you're right about Google AI mode -- it's pretty awesome. While I was using it, I thought about how long it's been since I've used Perplexity.... That then reminded me to tell you that I thought your write-up on Cloudflare's war on AI crawlers was super fascinating.
I feel like I understand why some people would have an instinct to "protect" content creators who are losing massive amounts of traffic to LLMs, but you raised a lot of logical reasons that may be a short sighted concern. I'm a little torn on it -- but Cloudflare must feel emboldened for now. They are getting a crazy amount of publicity for it!
Yeah, it's not something that is binary, fully 100 good or bad, but I think that if we look at second and third order effects, the net impact is probably pretty bad and mostly helps incumbents and cloudflare and hurts the small players and reduces the vibrancy of the ecosystem 🤔
Gas stoves are less popular where I am because we have very cheap hydro and not every home is hooked for gas (mine is, but I never had a gas stove).
I considered gas, but then found out induction is faster than gas (some cite 2x faster) and has none of the indoor air quality issues, so it seeme like a no brainer.
I think you're right about Google AI mode -- it's pretty awesome. While I was using it, I thought about how long it's been since I've used Perplexity.... That then reminded me to tell you that I thought your write-up on Cloudflare's war on AI crawlers was super fascinating.
I feel like I understand why some people would have an instinct to "protect" content creators who are losing massive amounts of traffic to LLMs, but you raised a lot of logical reasons that may be a short sighted concern. I'm a little torn on it -- but Cloudflare must feel emboldened for now. They are getting a crazy amount of publicity for it!
Yeah, it's not something that is binary, fully 100 good or bad, but I think that if we look at second and third order effects, the net impact is probably pretty bad and mostly helps incumbents and cloudflare and hurts the small players and reduces the vibrancy of the ecosystem 🤔
This one made me feel constipated;) Thanks especially for the primer on induction heating. I'm still not ready to give up my gas stove, though.
Gas stoves are less popular where I am because we have very cheap hydro and not every home is hooked for gas (mine is, but I never had a gas stove).
I considered gas, but then found out induction is faster than gas (some cite 2x faster) and has none of the indoor air quality issues, so it seeme like a no brainer.