Any word on the motivation of the attach? Any manifesto or a group taking responsibility?

Just speculating, but I assume the motivation is in a similar vein to the Stop AI movement. https://www.stopai.info/

Thank you for the heads up.

They took 'er jobs?

I've been working on HODLings, a private crypto tracker, which doesn't track you!

https://www.geosystemsdev.com/products/hodlings/

In essence, it runs on your mobile device and stores all your data locally. It only connects to the freely available CoinGecko API (for latest prices) and GitHub (for reference and historical data). A background job updates GitHub ref data hourly. There's no login, no cloud, no ads, etc.

Very positive outlook...

It may or it may not - time will tell. However, atm, I think they're competing for attention and investments, which is why they make such bomb she'll claims

Yes, AI tools rarely push back and tend to agree with the human. So if the human is spitting racist/misogynistic/homophobic etc crap, they'll find in AI a friend to validate and encourage them ...

Why does it need to be a Chrome extension?

its a PWA so its there and can be on the web or mobile

Yup - this advice has been around for 15 years, but ppl still do it. Checkstyle or a review agent can helpt catch it early on

Noice! Would be good if there was a mobile app too?

Yea, I set it up as a monorepo so it should be straight forward to build on top of

They want to push down you throat whatever their algo decides.

What sort of API do you use to search?

multi-region, I guess

Does it even touch disk? Is it limited by RAM?