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The whole internet loves Kagi, a lovely paid search engine that can find things! 5 seconds later We regret to inform you the CEO is an unhinged narcissist who will harangue you in email (hackers.town)

submitted 7 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

running through the sales playbook big time over a post with no readers

and now the original blog post, which had almost no readers, is front page on HN as I write this, and (in between the sociopath apologetics) even the horrible nerds are noticing he's bizarre on privacy, GDPR and AI obsession ...

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago

Dare I say... womp womp?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

AI obsession

To be fair, of all the problems with that CEO, this one I fail to see

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago

It isn't in this post, but it's in the post this one is about. Kagi started as an AI company, pivoted to the search engine, and it's still trying to put AI into everything.