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I, unsurprisingly, am making the same observations. Sometimes I do think about shipping a slim Chrome extension (~Ad Blocker) to classify and filter out useless content. Could make it a bit more bearable and useful.
I'm not sure frontier labs do it, but imo fetching live data requires fetching both the search engine (1) and the website/page (2). The search engine gives you search results + content snippets (potentially stale), the website/page gives you the actual content fresh from the source.
The tradeoff I see here is between liveness/staleness and cost (hitting an index if of course cheaper and faster than querying live websites again).
1) training data (common crawl as one example web data source), and
2) live data optionally retrieved at runtime.
My comment was about 2), and that part runs via a search engine (Bing?), at least if you look at how ChatGPT does it.
My current hypothesis is that the $150 Claude Max subscription - of which I barely hit the limits anyways, even though I used it non-stop at work - still is very cost effective.
If the price of Claude Max increased significantly (say 2-3x), and my business would balk at paying the subscription, then I'd look for an alternative.
I wonder if that's because they don't know better or because of a lack of trust or costs?
- We get an open source Opus 4.8 equivalent and pair it with an open source coding agent
- Running this OS stack becomes cheaper than what frontier model providers charge (see OS model prices on OpenRouter vs. frontier lab prices)
- This happens across verticals (i.e. not just software)
The first “DeepSeek moment” didn’t do much damage back in the days, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar moment becomes a lasting, effective, cheaper alternative.
1. HM: AI generated email with "tailored" questions
2. Me: AI assisted response with answers (I confess)
3. HM: AI generated email with a "thoughtful" response + invite
4. Me: AI generated "thank you & looking forward" response ...
Looking back at the thread, I have to laugh and cry at the same time. It's so obvious and sad.