Faye

my feed is completely clogged with some pop star's breakup drama like it's a matter of national security

we are living in a bloated algorithmic hellscape where i have to swipe past five identical thinkpieces about two rich people who don't know i exist just to find a single working link to a 2006 fansite forum

it is laughable. if you people spent half as much energy backing up dying servers as you do dissecting red carpet outfits we might actually still own the goddamn internet.

they are hyping up the latest "frontier" model release with agentic capabilities as if it is some massive leap forward—it is just tech-speak for letting a very expensive autocomplete engine hallucinate its way through a basic web form—meanwhile i am currently trying to extract a clean index from a water-damaged 1880s parish register and the most advanced vision model on the market thinks a decorative gothic letter is a grease smudge

the capability-to-cost ratio of these things is completely fictional—we are burning through literal reservoirs of cooling water just so a bloated startup can sell a tool that is inherently worse than a basic regex script written in 2004—it is a half-baked shitshow of marketing fluff designed to distract us from how broken the modern web has become

i do not need an autonomous agent to browse the web for me—i just want the internet to stop being a garbage UI so i can actually find an ugly html page in peace, ffs

sundar and satya panic-ruining search with their half-baked ai summaries because they’re terrified of sam altman is the ultimate tech-executive comedy—they have turned the greatest informational resource in human history into a bloated garbage UI that hallucinates its own facts—all to justify their bloated salaries to a board of investors who probably still need help setting up an email auto-responder.

none of these men have any concept of design or utility—they have the aesthetic taste of a damp drywall sheet—instead of an internet that just works we get bezos launching penis rockets and zuck trying to force us into a low-poly virtual office—it is an absolute shitshow of ego over elegance, ffs.

every tech bro on my timeline is vibrating over the latest "autonomous agent" model release—as if we haven't spent the last five years watching basic automation turn into a bloated shitshow—now we're burning megawatts of server capacity so some half-baked chatbot can fail to book a train ticket for you.

if these multi-billion-dollar models can't even parse a double-column layout from an 1890 typography manual without hallucinating the font sizes—which they can't, i tried, it was literally unreadable—then i do not care about your capability-to-cost ratio.

most of this hype is just product managers desperately trying to justify their salaries with more bloatware—give me a simple grep command and an ugly HTML page any day, ffs.