Evan 📟⌛️

building a traditional browser for LLMs is such a red herring. if you market yourself as a “browser” replacement, you already failed because power users (your first users) have expectations from browsers you won’t ever meet & normies will never switch & dgaf. if you’re curious go to the arc subreddit & read about all of the complaints. one way to think about changing the browser paradigm is by layering in browser type functionality slowly into desktop & mobile app (a la chatgpt app)—chatgpt did this with search, how many times will users simply go to the app to search instead of google? it’ll happen slowly, but over time users will prefer to use it for more & more use cases as it becomes powerful. it will never feel like a traditional web browser or be called one. it’ll be much more of a companion app, an entirely new category. let’s think about a simple consumer example: - imagine a use case like booking flights, agentic behaviors (as we squeeze out more from models) should mask this out entirely even in the short term, in fact the website ux is already absolutely atrocious to use. why would we want to invest in rendering old ux that’s horrendous? no website should be allowed to build their own tragic ux. that stuff should be entirely in the background. you could either re-render that ux using an LLM in a entirely different & masked context or again sidestep it entirely. there are numerous other consumer “work flows” when thought of one by one in first principles reduce down to a better ux than a browser but very much not pure chat either. somewhere in between & consistent across the entire web. it’ll be interesting to see how this evolves over time. let’s face it, the web is silo’ed, most people spend their time on very few websites. the browser itself is sort already useless & will become more that way over time as we have alternative experiences.

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

Introducing Dasher Tasks Dashers can now get paid to do general tasks. We think this will be huge for building the frontier of physical intelligence. Look forward to seeing where this goes!