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by andy99·14d ago·view on hn ↗
I can’t stand AI overviews in almost all situations. There’s something both untrustworthy about it and also the idea that something is being shoved down my throat, like someone is trying to tell me how to think. Plus it basically spoils any kind of discovery, I don’t need the internet treating me like a caricature of an executive that needs everything to cut to the heart of the matter, I’m mostly browsing the internet for leisure anyway, and even if I’m not I want to see the nuance myself.

Any “summarize with AI” is clearly one of those solution looking for a problem things, AI can do it so it gets added in whether anyone wants it or not.

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Sometimes a user-initiated overview is helpful to winnow wheat from chaff. Even when I'm using a filter for better material like HN, most of the articles (really, the authors) seem unable to get to the f— point. I blame, in equal shares, the attention economy and lack of writing skills.

I finally lost patience and set up a bookmarklet that grabs the current URL, opens a new tab, plops the URL into a Kagi Assistant prompt (using DeepSeek V4 Flash) along with the phrase "What's the point?", and sends it off. It seems to give better results than the vanilla Kagi Summarizer.