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93potoday at 12:46 AM1 replyview on HN

i've had the same thought for 20 years and unfortunately it's less likely than ever to happen now, given how many sites require javascript and have cloudflare pages before even loading a site (I get several a day).

thankfully i think traditional web surfing is probably going to die out in the next 10 years, and progressively decline a lot much sooner than that as people start to interact with AI rather than browsers (or any software for that matter).

my feed of hackernews is going to be my AI agent giving it to me in plain text very soon, and soon after that i will probably never visit the internet again because it will be impossible to know what's real and fake

as a millennial it will be interesting to experience the full cycle of being born when nothing was online, to everything being online, to then again being entirely offline by the time i'm older


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fc417fc802today at 2:20 AM

> my feed of hackernews is going to be my AI agent giving it to me in plain text very soon

Wait for the advent of local agents running on local models (for privacy) followed by techniques to fingerprint agents, followed by techniques to infer query parameters based on agent behavior. I wish I was joking but it seems all too plausible.