Am engineer. Know zero professional people in the engineering community who use AI browsers, and very few who even touch AI for anything aside from docs or stats.
In my personal life I know zero people who use these browsers. I think this is just panic from the higher ups at Mozilla who have no idea what in the fuck the company should be doing or is about, even.
Start making tools to give to people to combat this bullshit from the EU. Build a USABLE and decentralized chat app that people can actually use FFS. Build something like Proton and ACTUALLY BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT.
Others have eaten your lunch because of this exact thing. Do better.
The main use for AI that I’ve seen in my circles is a search engine replacement. Not because AI is a good search engine, but because search engines have largely become useless.
If Mozilla wants to cement their place, create a better search engine. It’s how Google came to control a huge portion of the internet, and there’s now a huge vacuum waiting for someone to replace what we lost.
I think this is just panic from the higher ups at Mozilla who have no idea what in the fuck the company should be doing or is about, even.
There’s another possibility I don’t see anyone talking about. It could just be the higher ups at Mozilla doing the old performative “we’re doing AI” dance for their shareholders and the investment community. Everyone assumes they are 100% sincere about embracing AI but this could simply be them paying the AI tax that all companies seem required to pay right now.
If this is plausible, then we should just wait for it to manifest as actual feature changes and then judge. Right now this is just high level messaging and PR.
What about all those ladder climbers who want to sound like they’re tapped in to the pulse of cutting edge technology to the bosses? I work with engineers and it seems to be pretty split between full adoption and full rejection.
If you lacked coming in and relied on this bullshit, you’ll suck even more going out when they figure out you can’t have a conversation about the thing you were hired to be an expert on, buddy.
Im genuinely confused by your reply. I wasn’t referring to ladder climbers in a positive light. I see them shoehorning AI into pointless projects that dazzle the bosses because they don’t know any better or because they want to dazzle their own bosses with more mumbo jumbo derived from their own reports.
“Am engineer”. This is reddit level cringe stuff. There are tons of engineers, we’re not special and most of us are equally dumb. Its funny you mention proton when they’ve made pro-***** statements and then trying to stay neutral in the blowback. “AI” has its uses like you said, in docs and stats. Firefox will NEVER be self-sufficient because they exist on funding from Google to exist as their only competition to not be a browser monopoly. As much as we hate it, there is a complicated line to be towed here. Mozilla isn’t perfect, but they’re far from an enemy here. The Firefox forks we love so much won’t exist without this
Am engineer. Know zero professional people in the engineering community who use AI browsers, and very few who even touch AI for anything aside from docs or stats.
In my personal life I know zero people who use these browsers. I think this is just panic from the higher ups at Mozilla who have no idea what in the fuck the company should be doing or is about, even.
Start making tools to give to people to combat this bullshit from the EU. Build a USABLE and decentralized chat app that people can actually use FFS. Build something like Proton and ACTUALLY BECOME SELF-SUFFICIENT.
Others have eaten your lunch because of this exact thing. Do better.
The main use for AI that I’ve seen in my circles is a search engine replacement. Not because AI is a good search engine, but because search engines have largely become useless.
If Mozilla wants to cement their place, create a better search engine. It’s how Google came to control a huge portion of the internet, and there’s now a huge vacuum waiting for someone to replace what we lost.
Not even translation? That’s probably the biggest browser AI feature.
There’s another possibility I don’t see anyone talking about. It could just be the higher ups at Mozilla doing the old performative “we’re doing AI” dance for their shareholders and the investment community. Everyone assumes they are 100% sincere about embracing AI but this could simply be them paying the AI tax that all companies seem required to pay right now.
If this is plausible, then we should just wait for it to manifest as actual feature changes and then judge. Right now this is just high level messaging and PR.
If you’ve not been paying attention to their other random products, it would seem this is unlikely.
They just jump from random thing to random thing and collect money along the way, draining the coffers with their C-level titles. Absolutely bullshit.
What about all those ladder climbers who want to sound like they’re tapped in to the pulse of cutting edge technology to the bosses? I work with engineers and it seems to be pretty split between full adoption and full rejection.
LLMs aren’t going to make you good at your job.
If you lacked coming in and relied on this bullshit, you’ll suck even more going out when they figure out you can’t have a conversation about the thing you were hired to be an expert on, buddy.
Good luck to you.
Im genuinely confused by your reply. I wasn’t referring to ladder climbers in a positive light. I see them shoehorning AI into pointless projects that dazzle the bosses because they don’t know any better or because they want to dazzle their own bosses with more mumbo jumbo derived from their own reports.
“Am engineer”. This is reddit level cringe stuff. There are tons of engineers, we’re not special and most of us are equally dumb. Its funny you mention proton when they’ve made pro-***** statements and then trying to stay neutral in the blowback. “AI” has its uses like you said, in docs and stats. Firefox will NEVER be self-sufficient because they exist on funding from Google to exist as their only competition to not be a browser monopoly. As much as we hate it, there is a complicated line to be towed here. Mozilla isn’t perfect, but they’re far from an enemy here. The Firefox forks we love so much won’t exist without this