I think Dia's AI in the browser approach has potential but it still has a long way to go.

Google won't be good and fast enough in their integration of Gemini into Chrome so Dia definitely has the upper hand there, just like how Cursor beat Copilot.

Perplexity is also entering the browser space with Comet. They have more experience building on top of AI but less experience than The Browser Company in building a Browser so curious to see what they come up with and how it measures against Dia.

I've been pushing one of the Dia LLM guys to have deeper integration with the DOM and DevTools since that will make it more interesting for devs who are more likely to pay for features than your average consumer. Let's see what comes of it.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

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deep remote-ai integration into the DOM and rendering is a step too far for me. if its a local model absolutely. the privacy and trust implications otherwise are icky

still mostly analog. patterns, builder, entrepreneur, analyzing your transactions since 2016

ah, maybe I wasnt clear: modifying the DOM in flight is my top concern. I dream of a dynamically changing app, ai makes it possible. but I dont want my text mitm to my eyeballs by malicious ai

There's not much difference in terms of privacy between reading the raw DOM vs the text scraped out of the DOM, is there?

In both cases you'd have to be selective on what part of the DOM you provide to the LLM