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What it's like to be a developer in 2024 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] jezza 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

This is why I've really grown attached to Kagi (paid search engine).

It's made the internet usable again. I'm honestly surprised how much of difference there is. I'd really recommend people give it a shot. (there's a free trial for it)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Isn't Kagi an AI company with a bunch of shady shit going on? I'm always extremely skeptical of these posts.

[–] jezza 8 points 6 months ago

I never heard anything before this, so I looked around, and there's definitely some posts about it.

https://www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

I'll have to give them a read.

For now, ignore my recommendation, as I don't yet fully know my stance on this, with the information provided.

However, I can say that I've been super happy with the search results. I don't use their email service. Just the search and the access to all of the LLMs that are out there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I don't know what shady shit you're referring to. They do AI, but I don't use any of that. IMO their core strength is the search engine and how it works for you rather than against.

[–] meliaesc 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

A paid search engine... 🤔

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Many people would prefer a paid service over an ad supported one.

[–] ikidd 7 points 6 months ago

Many people would prefer that their search history isn't associated to personal and payment information.

[–] meliaesc 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I generally agree with that, but as an aggregation service it would need to justify not providing any actual content/information with its price structure. The same argument against AI models trained with user data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It still costs money for hardware and hosting. Scraping web and training AI ain't cheap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

We've been conditioned. Everything has a cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'd be curious to sign up if the paid version wasn't search capped.

I search a lot of random stuff or typo etc I feel like I'd burn through the allowance in 2 weeks

[–] jezza -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

People expect a free thing to always have your best interests at heart.

Kagi makes sense to me. I pay for a product.

(just as a random side note, lenses alone would make it worth it)