Invented your parents’ favorite news aggregator, the first Android Twitter app, and many more failures. Prev: biztoc.com ✕ @mcuban (acquired by @prorata_ai)
All human-written blogs grow until they become news sites.
All news sites grow until they need topic filters.
All filtered news sites grow until they need algorithmic ranking.
All algorithmically ranked news sites grow until they need AI summaries.
All AI-summarized news sites
The problem with pre AI Google was that it trained us to believe the needle had to exist somewhere in the haystack, while AI changes the premise because what we seek no longer has to exist before we find it. Not good.
