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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 483 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (34 children)

The pathological need to find something to use LLMs for is so bizzare.

It’s like the opposite of classic ML, relatively tiny special purpose models trained for something critical, out of desperation, because it just can’t be done well conventionally.

But this:

AI-enhanced tab groups. Powered by a local AI model, these groups identify related tabs and suggest names for them. There is even a "Suggest more tabs for group" button that users can click to get recommendations.

Take out the word AI.

Enhanced tab groups. Powered by a local algorithm, these groups identify related tabs and suggest names for them. There is even a "Suggest more tabs for group" button that users can click to get recommendations.

If this feature took, say, a gigabyte of RAM and a bunch of CPU, it would be laughed out. But somehow it ships because it has the word AI in it? That makes no sense.

I am a massive local LLM advocate. I like “generative” ML, within reason and ethics. But this is just stupid.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (15 children)

even without AI, to me tab groups are already feature creep bloat in browsers. do people really put that much effort into organizing tabs?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, but I think the idea of a second layer of organization to tabs is a wonderful idea. Maybe not a gig of RAM to sort them, sure.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

FF already has tab groups. Right click on one.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, they were added somewhat recently, I know.

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