RSS is good for “I like this site, please show me new content when it releases”.
But Pocket was more like “I stumbled across this article on my phone, I want to read it later so I’ll save it and sync to other devices, I don’t necessarily care about this site”
I actually quite enjoy the functionality, especially as I try to move away from centralised aggregation like Reddit.
I just don’t like the privacy and monetization tactics used by most of the solutions in this niche.
It’s important to note that the AI isn’t actually talking about it’s internal system.
It’s predicting how an AI model would reply to this question.
This is something people keep getting confused about LLMs. It’s the same with those viral “I asked Claude to describe how it feels to think about himself and got this amazing reply with analogy and philosophical conundrums!”… Yeah that’s not Claude describing how it feels to be himself, that’s Claude generating a reply based on how people tend to talk about LLMs and the tone you requested (first person).
And yet they still haven’t managed to get enough people to pay the subscription costs, except the guys trying to package it as a SaaS and hoping the customers don’t notice they’re just a fancy middleman.
They can scale up training all they want, there’s a natural price point most customers won’t go over. And if you’re thinking about businesses paying that extra cost because they can save money on actual workers… Sure, for a few months, and then they realize what happens when they leave their super intelligent AI agents alone for a few weeks and a website changes the default layout, breaking the entire workflow, or when an important client receives an absurd automated email, or when their AI note taker and financial planning agent is incapable of answering why $20000 disappeared.
Their customers will take that. There’s no world Apple eats a 25% cost rather than simply increasing their prices.