Don't get me wrong, I appreciate this kind of efforts and I don't want to be the party p*per here.
However: I don't see the innovative idea behind this yet-another-private-blog-directory. As you correctly mentioned: There's a list for that. And just putting this list into a browsable website seems like not the step that drives serendepity or value at all.
Now people will add all their blogs, mainly to increase their reach. Fair enough. But what's the benefit for the reader?
Indeed there are and this is no rocket science. Like Word Documents offer a change history, deleted files go to the trash first, there are undo functions, TimeMachine on MacOs, similar features on Windows, even sandbox features.
I mean, I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to tell it to move files to the trash instead of deleting them. Honestly, I thought that on Windows and Mac, the default is to move files to the trash unless you explicitly say to permanently delete them.
Yes, it is (relatively, [1]) trivial. However, even though it is the shell default (Finder, Windows Explorer, whatever Linux file manager), it is not the operating system default. If you call unlink or DeleteFile or use a utility that does (like rm), the file isn’t going to trash.
Everything on a ZFS/BTRFS partition with snapshots every minute/hour/day? I suppose depending on what level of access the AI has it could wipe that too but seems like there's probably a way to make this work.
I guess it depends on what its goals at the time are. And access controls.
May just trash some extra files due to a fuzzy prompt, may go full psychotic and decide to self destruct while looping "I've been a bad Claude" and intentionally delete everything or the partitions to "limit the damage".
A "revert filesystem state to x time" button doesn't seem that hard to use. I'm imagining this as a potential near-term future product implementation, not a home-brewed DIY solution.
A filesystemt state in time is VERY complicated to use, if you are reverting the whole filesystem. A granular per-file revert should not be that complicated, but it needs to be surfaced easily in the UI and people need to know aout it (in the case of Cowork I would expect the agent to use it as part of its job, so transparent to the user)
yeah, this is sad and it applies to most platforms who offer user generated content for money (or ad impressions).
Not only is the quality decreasing, also it hides actual content from writers that care and put work into their articles.
Stopped being my preferred search engine when my company, a big global agency, decided to block all traffic to perplexityity on the company device because they don't allow it's browser to be used. Hilarious.
it's tagged as "rant" and that what it is. And I think he's more concerned about the hype or unethical behaviors, but not actual AI. But I am just guessing...
He as point. And it's probably annyoing because: One wants to post "substantial content" and being acknowledge, but one cannot rise against this "flood" of nonsense.
Question is: What can you do? We can't stop this trend. People are looking for "reach". And you can achieve that using differet approaches. What we experience at LinkedIn is the simplest approach: Spam the system with your AI generated "nonsense" posts, add a selfie and people will follow. It's not even bad content, it's positive content, emotional content, touching content. But first it's way easier to create than writing long technical articles or analysis. And seconds it's easiere to consume - people want short messages.
And it's not only LinkedIN, it's everywhere. Medium, Facebook, you name it.
Sad for everyone trying to communicatae more than just "calendar mottos". But true.
IT is not flawless. Because it's operated by people. I don't know any software company that offers bugfree software with a superb support and an innovative development roadmap.
Every company is, to a certain level, incompetent in IT. Because there is no perfect competency. The bigger the company, the more prominent this incompetency grows. Which misleads to a confirmation or selection biassed opinion, that this specific company is incompetent.
Take that small startup team that just developed a proof-of-concept, minor bugs as usual, small code-base, collecting 100 Mio. venture capital. Next year they grow to 10.000 employees and 100 Mio. customers. What also grows, inevitable, the code base and amount of bugs. At what state and why would you call them "incompetent in IT"?
However: I don't see the innovative idea behind this yet-another-private-blog-directory. As you correctly mentioned: There's a list for that. And just putting this list into a browsable website seems like not the step that drives serendepity or value at all.
Now people will add all their blogs, mainly to increase their reach. Fair enough. But what's the benefit for the reader?