More Dia doubt
Manu Moreale has some thoughts and skepticism about how AI and web browsers are going to mix:
We all yelled and screamed because the web has too many gatekeepers, we all lamented Google search results going to shit, and we all celebrated when new search engines were coming up. Why would I be happy trading a search result page filled with links—even if ranked in a flawed way—for a block of text that gives me an opinionated answer and maybe some links?
I was listening to the latest Decoder podcast with Sundar Pichai and these same questions came up. Is the future of the web really just agents talking to each other? That can be part of it, but not it. I think we’ll need a web browser that can seamlessly transition from answering questions to interacting with web pages on their own terms.
As for The Browser Company, if they were bootstrapped or had minimal funding, they could charge a subscription for Arc or Dia. I’d probably pay for it. But Manu’s right that reaching the scale they want is very difficult.