> the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools

Which is super cool. Like during the dawn of web 2.0 we had lots of aggregators and forums instead of "Reddit and others."

(I'm not saying it's good UX.)

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commandar 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

To be clear: having a diversity of tools is a good thing! I like having options.

My complaint is more that right now it feels like everybody is rushing to fill the exact same space with the exact same feature sets.

It's resulting in a lot of superficial diversity that's functionally homogenous. I want to see more applications that are pushing the capabilities of current AI tooling in creative directions.

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		If you don't care about bleeding edge, most of these will fall to the wayside and a few superior options will win out. Otherwise, you're going to see the variations on the same thing over and over, which is totally fine, and where innovation comes from. Personally, I just use stock VS Code (copilot) and Cursor.

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latexr 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Like during the dawn of web 2.0 we had lots of aggregators and forums instead of "Reddit and others."

So, in other words, this is the exact opposite? “Lost of aggregators and forums” meant diversity. Lots of small players doing their own thing. What we have now is a handful of big players, and then tons of small players accessing those services with a different coat of paint. It’s like if the web you mention consisted of lots of people doing alternative interfaces to access Facebook and Reddit.

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herval 4 days ago | parent [-]

> lots of people doing alternative interfaces to access Facebook and Reddit.

So… what we had on web 2 then, with its daily twitter clients? There were hundreds and hundreds of them

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latexr 4 days ago | parent [-]

Twitter wasn’t nearly as big or influential, that comparison doesn’t hold. Furthermore, I was replying directly to the reference of “lots of aggregators and forums instead of "Reddit and others."”, which obviously excludes Twitter as part of the “others”.

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