[Zoethink]

I genuinely feel like we’re living through another big shift — like what smartphones did in the 2000s, AI is doing now.

I’m not a developer, but I can already feel how the way I use the internet is changing. I used to search for things, now I just ask — and the AI replies like a person. It’s subtle, but powerful.

I really think in a few years, most of us will have some kind of personal AI. Not just a tool, but more like a life companion — helping us plan, decide, learn, even reflect. Kind of like how we can’t imagine life without Google now.

[inferiorhuman]

Yeah it's definitely changed the internet. All of sudden every site is behind anti-bot garbage (usually Cloudflare). Sites I use (like Sourcehut) are getting DDOS'd by AI scrapers. It might be a wee bit reductive to say that AI is destroying the internet, but this certainly is the death of the open internet. AI has just handed a huge amount of power to companies like Cloudflare and made it that much more difficult to avoid being tracked.