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What it's like to be a developer in 2024 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

Counter point: we had good search results a decade ago and Google voluntarily eroded their product quality for a pittance of extra ad revenue.

Having a decent search engine is achievable and we don't need to shoehorn AI into fucking everything.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

I don't disagree, but for obvious reasons, we can't access Google from a decade ago, since they've made it unavailable.

I'm not really describing an ideal state, this is a mere matter of practicality.

[-] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately the spam arms race has destroyed any chance of search going back to the good ole days. SEO and AI content farms means we'll need a whole new system to categorize webpages, as well as filter out human sounding but low effort spam.

Point being, it's no longer enough to find a page that's relevant to the topic, it has to be relevant and actually deliver information, which currently the only feasible tech that can differentiate those is LLMs.

[-] jnk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

It would be interesting tho to use a LLM to spot AI/SEO crap and add whole domains to a search blacklist. In that case we wouldn't need AI to do the actual search, and this could easily just be a database for end users by the SE's side (kinda like explicit content filters).

I'd call that option "Bullspam filter" and leave it on "moderate" by default.