The recent success of ChatGPT shows that the current search experience is likely deprecated. With LLMs, you can get information immediately that directly answers your query.
ChatGPT has its limits too though - it's not always right, you don't have options other than to re-ask or regenerate if the one answer doesn't satisfy what you need, we're limited to only text, and the experience may be just a bit too contained/convergent. It feels like it's going to take another product or iteration to really get there.
The question I keep asking - what does the future of problem-solving and finding knowledge on the internet look like in an ideal world given the tools that we have or could now build?
I keep looking for a coherent answer to that question, but have never seen one so far, these are unimportant details that are swept under the AI enthusiasm rug.
Someone (I wish I could remember who) once argued that if you're trying to create an ecosystem around your product, you can't hoover up all the value, you have to leave some for the little guy. I've felt for a while that Google, with its various attempts to put the answer on the search results page, might be skirting dangerously close to that problem. It feels like the only value they're leaving on the table is the chance to sell stuff.
My expectation is "not much", because if the fact is utterly divorced from the source, there's not even any point writing near-spam pages to attract people to the site where you're selling something. But I think we'd need to see a working implementation to know for sure.
Hm, that claims SQLite is 'never' used for web backends; Bun says it's motivated for use 'at the edge' - first thing I thought of when I read that was Fly.io/Litestream: https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
(No idea if there's any relationship between the projects, just makes me think that article's a bit dismissive.)
P2P isn't bad thing though right? Or many would argue it's a great thing.
Web3 is systematized, open, and properly incentivized P2P. That sounds like a great value prop. This has allowed an ecosystem to be built to push it into the mainstream which is his primary challenge with P2P
Great work! I had built something similar but in the form of a web app. It uses GitHub to generate a resume for you and also creates an API to power your portfolio website.
Ethereum introduced the concept of decentralized compute resources, in which it was also a first mover. Judging Ethereum in its current state feels like judging the internet in the 1980's and saying it's not a value provider.
It will be interesting to see how the companies trying to compete respond.