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AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger

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211 points CrankyBear | 2 comments | 02 Sep 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[02 Sep 25 17:27 UTC] No.45106227[source]▶
I'm not sure why they don't just cache the websites and avoid going back for at least 24 hours, especially in the case of most sites. I swear its like we're re-learning software engineering basics with LLMs / AI and it kills me.
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1. add-sub-mul-div ◴[02 Sep 25 17:40 UTC] No.45106430[source]▶
The people at the forefront of creating the shortcut machine are taking shortcuts. We're on a slow march towards the death of attention to detail.
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2. giancarlostoro ◴[02 Sep 25 18:06 UTC] No.45106836[source]▶
Slow march? It feels like we've been on that train a while honestly. It's embarrassing. We don't even have fully native GUIs they're all browser wrappers.