Comment by Mockapapella

> and they have fully bought into AI being the future of search

Good, because as far as I can tell it is. I use their "Quick Answer" feature very often in my searches, to the point where it's the first thing I click when searching. It's fantastic on mobile so I don't have to go trawling through ad-ridden websites. I am a happy customer because of this feature.

> But the developers of Kagi fully believe that this is what search engines should be, a bunch of AI tools so that you don't even need to read primary sources anymore

At least with "Quick Answer" it links to their sources used. This is a non-issue.

> There was some demo where you could put someone's Twitter handle in and it would give you a summary of who that person was (nightmare shit)

Really? Providing a summary of someone who willingly posts publicly is the stuff of nightmares? This is not a serious person and their opinion should not be taken seriously.

> And he is very, very much the type that believes "not everything is political" and "we don't get into politics"

Because not everything is political. I have never met a stable or amicable person who has thought that everything is political. Every time they have had a coarse personality that has a warped perception of reality. If I had a discord channel for my product and people were going into it mucking it up by trying to make everything political, they would get a swift ban. Keep that shit on Twitter.

I see a lot of their extra features as just that, extra. I don't buy Amazon Prime because I want to use "Twitch Prime" and "Amazon Music" as well, I buy it because I want faster shipping times. The rest is just extra and is of no concern to me.

A third of their investment on free t-shirts aside (which ain't good AFAICT), most of what Vlad is talking about comes off as reasonable. The only thing I do take concern with is his stance on <100 people on earth who really need anonymity. That does not inspire confidence.