weirdish

The thing about it is before Google killed search from a Product standpoint, they were killing search from a policy standpoint by rewarding SEO hackers and other junk behavior. It's been over 10 years now that most content returned from a google search is gigantic catch-all pages with sections like:

"What time is the football game on tonight? People often ask what time the football game is on tonight, and to find out what time the football game is on tonight. Tonight the football game is on at a time when the football game is on tonight".

People started to use LLMs for search because they actually return the desired content in a form the user wants to read. I unfortunately actually like AI mode because of this even if i recognize relying on AI summaries for search has its problems.

I'm sure with a little ingenuity you could rig up stringman to stab you to death!

I'd only buy this if it included a subscription-based AI upsell to predict and adapt to my adjusting superstition needs over time

I've always wondered why we haven't seen a broad architectural movement returning to highly ornate decorative facades now that technology has made this kind of thing (more) possible. We could be having so much more fun in architecture right now!

hermes is great to get started with, but it's packed to the gills with stuff you'll probably use one time just to test it. and this eats in to your context so if you're hoping to run it on a lighter-weight local model you'll run in to some trouble. if you go into it planning to customize/thin it out it's solid

theoretically this is interesting, but in practice it's just one layer that sits atop what is ultimately still many individual chat boxes. Did you try anything else, anything a little more novel?