Re:The Death Knell of Digital Search
by Modified3019 on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @03:45PM
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I’ve been using Kagi search for a while, and had no real complaints, as the search does what I’ve always expected it to do. For a while I completely ignored Kagi assistant because why the fuck would I want a slower and verbose version of a search that already worked fine?
In the past few months though, I’ve been heavily using the assistant set to use deepseek to assist with putting together a Minecraft 26.2 mod pack. It’s saved me so much time and frustration it’s unreal. Turns out there are certain things that are complex enough that regular search really isn’t all that great for.
For example, I can now do things like ask if there’s a mod that allows torch placement from the hotbar while holding something else, via middle click, compatible with Minecraft Java 26.2 neoforge, as the one I previously used is stuck on 1.21.1. And instead of spending 2-3 hours trying a bunch of keywords and combing through poorly named and documented mods, I can quickly get fairly reasonable confirmation that this doesn’t exist, along with some alternatives.
Another game changer is handing it a GitHub source and asking it what needs to get changed to update a mod to newer versions, and things like what’s involved with fixing a model from an outdated resource pack for a recent version and having it work with Fresh Animations. This would proudly have required many days of painful and frustrating searching.
I can also ask it for basic scripts, rather than spending time hoping to find something someone else already made. Such as taking ratings from my navidrome database, and writing them into tags in the related songs. Just the other day I asked it for a violentmonkey script that can take a Reddit comment with a video, and give me a url that yt-dlp can handle. I would have never have had the expertise or time to learn to implement these things myself.
Of course, one must keep in mind that the knowledge the llm has has a time cutoff, but I’m frankly have so much of a better time than before.
I can now see myself using the next update of Claude to generate mods (the current version does not have much knowledge of Minecraft 26.2) with features I want. While I’m reasonably competent technically, actual coding is beyond me, and is far beyond my free time to learn.
While AI doesn’t replace my use of classic search wholesale, it does take a set of problems I was trying to poorly solve with classic search, and actually gives me what I want.
In the past few months though, I’ve been heavily using the assistant set to use deepseek to assist with putting together a Minecraft 26.2 mod pack. It’s saved me so much time and frustration it’s unreal. Turns out there are certain things that are complex enough that regular search really isn’t all that great for.
For example, I can now do things like ask if there’s a mod that allows torch placement from the hotbar while holding something else, via middle click, compatible with Minecraft Java 26.2 neoforge, as the one I previously used is stuck on 1.21.1. And instead of spending 2-3 hours trying a bunch of keywords and combing through poorly named and documented mods, I can quickly get fairly reasonable confirmation that this doesn’t exist, along with some alternatives.
Another game changer is handing it a GitHub source and asking it what needs to get changed to update a mod to newer versions, and things like what’s involved with fixing a model from an outdated resource pack for a recent version and having it work with Fresh Animations. This would proudly have required many days of painful and frustrating searching.
I can also ask it for basic scripts, rather than spending time hoping to find something someone else already made. Such as taking ratings from my navidrome database, and writing them into tags in the related songs. Just the other day I asked it for a violentmonkey script that can take a Reddit comment with a video, and give me a url that yt-dlp can handle. I would have never have had the expertise or time to learn to implement these things myself.
Of course, one must keep in mind that the knowledge the llm has has a time cutoff, but I’m frankly have so much of a better time than before.
I can now see myself using the next update of Claude to generate mods (the current version does not have much knowledge of Minecraft 26.2) with features I want. While I’m reasonably competent technically, actual coding is beyond me, and is far beyond my free time to learn.
While AI doesn’t replace my use of classic search wholesale, it does take a set of problems I was trying to poorly solve with classic search, and actually gives me what I want.