On Arc, its future, and the arrival of AI browsers — a moment to answer the largest questions you've asked us this past year.
  1. Webpages won’t be the primary interface anymore. Traditional browsers were built to load webpages. But increasingly, webpages — apps, articles, and files — will become tool calls with AI chat interfaces. In many ways, chat interfaces are already acting like browsers: they search, read, generate, respond. They interact with APIs, LLMs, databases. And people are spending hours a day in them. If you’re skeptical, call a cousin in high school or college — natural language interfaces, which abstract away the tedium of old computing paradigms, are here to stay.

Owner of web browser says webpages are cooked, I guess.

Wow.

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Webpages won’t be the primary interface anymore

    My primary interface is still zsh & TUI apps. I don’t anticipate that will change any time soon, but I am indeed using LLMs to generate boring boilerplate code and such.

    And yeah, the paragraph in general is correct, the old web 2.0 is completely cooked now, almost everything is going to be spyware/AI soon, with little to no human interaction, for better and for worse. Tiny holdouts like Lemmy will of course remain but they are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. This is notably different from the crypto hype in that LLMs are actually useful in a more situations than crypto, and everyone is using them already.

    The problem is that fundamentally they are replacements for “fake-it-till-you-make-it” bullshitters (still at the “fake-it” stage) and not actual experts, so being unable to quickly access expert opinions on topics (like the search engines of the old kind of allowed to do) is going to fuck up a lot of stuff. Oh, and also, I feel like the critical thinking skill is going to be completely dead soon; we are in the process of outsourcing the very acts of thinking and creativity to a remote datacenter controlled by corporations. This has happened before to some extent with other vital skills (like food gathering/production, movement, healing, information search), so it’s not as big of a deal as it might seem, but it’s still pretty sad.