But it's okay because

> Your access token is encrypted and stored securely. Only the permissions you grant will be used.

AI companies just much quicker in removing don't be evil than previous tech companies. Having and removing them is at least some kind of canary.

I find it's always helpful to read any praise of X/Grok/Elon in a heavily sarcastic voice. That way it all makes sense.

Why is a loan comparison site doing this kind of research? Why would you trust this kind of research from a loan comparison site?

It's just the continued slow death of the open internet

I'm assuming BT? If so then their blocking is DNS based and if you are not using their DNS then they will block these sites

My ISP currently makes them not resolve (with scary sounding domains):

  ; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> @192.168.1.254 annas-archive.li
  ; (1 server found)
  ;; global options: +cmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18716
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

  ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
  ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;annas-archive.li.  IN A

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  annas-archive.li. 845 IN CNAME www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk.
  www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk. 511 IN CNAME ukispblk.vo.llnwd.net.
  ukispblk.vo.llnwd.net. 845 IN CNAME ukispblk.vo.llnwd.net.edgesuite.net.

  ;; Query time: 3 msec
  ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254)
  ;; WHEN: Wed Feb 18 12:06:25 GMT 2026
  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 169

Being productive isn't the same as being an expert

100% agree! But how many organizations actually need an expert vs someone productive? Goes back to the "only the most hardcore performance-based orgs" point as an example

> Why this matters

Hello AI (Claude?)

I read it more as:

We already don't know how everything works, AI is steering us towards a destination where there is more of the everything.

I would also add it's also possible it will reduce the number people that are _capable_ of understanding the parts it is responsible for.

Who's "we"?

I am sure engineers collectively understand how the entire stack works.

With LLM generated output, nobody understands how anything works, including the very model you just interacted with -- evident in "you are absolutely correct"

Even as a collective whole, engineers will likely only understand the parts of system that are engineering problems and solutions. Even if they could understand it all, there is still no _one_ person who understands how everything works.