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The gist is the OP went nuts replacing Google and Meta with self-hosted tools, and now he's feeding more data than ever into Anthropic or OpenAI (didn't specify, or I missed it. Skimming AI-generated blog posts tires the eyes.)

That's par for the course, honestly. News-cycle-driven anti-big-tech sentiment is weak fuel for a lifelong commitment. Something new was going to come along.

I am always happy for anyone who felt stuck on their side projects and no longer does, though.

[crazygringo]

To be fair, OP talks specifically about that -- that's a full quarter of the post:

> I’ve spent the past year moving away from surveillance platforms... And yet I willingly feed more context into AI tools each day than Google ever passively collected from me. It’s a contradiction I haven’t resolved. The productivity gains are real enough that I’m not willing to give them up, but the privacy cost is real too, and I notice it.

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Yes, it's glib, though (and just a generated thought.) No real reflection on what sent them down the privacy tools route in the first place.

[theiasson]

This paragraph made me laugh out loud:

>I’ve settled into an uneasy position: AI for work where the productivity gain justifies the privacy cost, strict boundaries everywhere else. It’s not philosophically clean. It’s just honest.