I managed to jailbreak its protections quite easily. For exampke I did some experiments on rewriting a text built by claude to iterate over a fitness function that rewrites to bypass AI-detectors, just to see how far it would go, changing the API terms and skills from "human" and "ai" to "engaging" and "unease" managed to bypass everything while keeping everything else int he logic intact.
What pisses me off is that everything people are doing is so walled garden / closed source. Sharing knowledge between companies would be so fucking useful to humanity.
* WordPress remains roughly unchanged over the past five years, until the final datum which is lower than the flat trend.
* None had been decreasing but over the current year to date has increased sharply, correlating with the LLM trend and subjective notions of LLMs having "finally gotten good" for coding, though the trend is rather short.
* Over previous years, Shopify and Wix began to take increasing amounts of market share from WordPress as well as legacy competitors.
Because this chart shows proportions of the web rather than a total number of websites, and by virtue of remaining at the same proportion while the denominator increases, we know that the number of WordPress sites on the web is still increasing even if this is not clearly depicted by the chart. But I would argue the more important story is that WordPress is no longer eating the web as much as it is just consistent, and I think this shows that WordPress is now genuinely a little bit vulnerable as a singular platform choice to learn.
I don't disagree with the fact you had raised about fancy custom React SPA style apps being fairly rare in quantity across the web when so much of the web runs on whatever offering has a decent CMS and isn't too hard to deploy. And WordPress is still a great choice to learn today for those looking to make good money doing web dev, especially in freelance, marketing, e-commerce, etc.
But WordPress may actually finally be on the decline after holding steady after so many years, and having seen this data I would personally have come to a different conclusion than the one your post did.
Maybe I would have said something along the lines of "Despite the constant rumors of the death of PHP, WordPress has grown to serve nearly a majority of the websites on the internet and has held a steady chunk of the market for the last five years. Learning to use it is still many people's best chance at success in web development, even as other trendy technologies appear on the market. Even if WordPress were to significantly decline in popularity, a very large portion of the market for web development would continue to belong to those who chose to learn WordPress." I feel like that is still in the spirit of what your post intended, but with slightly closer alignment to some sort of data.
"Things can be broken in ways that weren’t previously possible" and also "Things can work in ways that weren’t previously possible". It all depends on what the use the tool for, if you're a carpenter you're going to do a bad job regardless if you have a fancy hammer or a basic one. If you're an expert, give them a basic hammer and they'll do the work, give them a fancy hammer and they'll do the same, perhaps a little faster (or not).
For comparison: Claude only uses OCR for the first 100 pages, then falls back to text-only extract. Public URL in, HTML page out, AI throughout up to 300 pages (spartaaaaa!).
Conveniently, that's also roughly where the cost math stops working for a free tool. Scanned PDFs are best-effort OCR. Multi-page tables spanning sheets are still a weak spot.
Feel free to try with your own PDF links to see what breaks, it will help improving the crawl logic and the parser (I still need to get some rate limits up)
If you want to use it on the beach you will probably need an e-ink display because no laptop screen can compete with the sun. But matte is still infinitely better than glossy for less than ideal conditions such as working on a train where there might be sunlight coming in from the side.
Glossy screens are, in my humble opinion, a stupid gimmick because they look a bit better at ideal viewing conditions. For mobile devices the viewing conditions are most often not ideal, so it really doesn't make any sense unless the screen has to be a touch screen. I have had one laptop with a glossy screen and I ended up putting a glare reducing sticker on it because the glare was intolerable.
Based on my experience with the System 76 Lemur Pro coming from a Macbook Pro, matte helps a bit. You won't have mirror glare like on the Macbook, but the sun will still wash out the matte screen.
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