Summary

Hotz argues that AI has advanced enough to browse the internet on behalf of humans, creating an opportunity to liberate users from attention-hijacking ads and enshittified websites. He demonstrates this with 'zappa', a vibe-coded mitmproxy plugin that routes all HTML, JS, and CSS through Qwen via the Cerebras API, stripping out ads, popups, and dark patterns before passing content to the user. He frames this as a countermeasure to AI browsers being marketed by companies that actually want to control user attention. Hotz predicts that cheap intelligence will give everyone a personal assistant to fight enshittification, forcing advertisers to either pivot to user-aligned models or give up. He closes by declaring the Turing Test over and inviting advertisers to waste their money on his Qwen proxy.

Key Insight

When cheap AI can browse for you, the entire attention economy collapses — and users finally get an aligned agent to fight back against enshittification.

Spicy Quotes (click to share)

• 8

  Why should I browse the Internet or use apps when machines can do it for me?

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  Suckers getting billed for an ad impression from a 1 cent Qwen.

• 8

  Don't fall for AI browser crap that's marketed to you, that's just them wanting to control your attention better.

• 6

  You need an AI you can trust to fight back!

• 7

  Intelligence is about to be dirt cheap, everyone will have a full time lighting fast personal assistant to deal with the enshittified world for them.

• 5

  Imagine a skilled software engineer running in 100x real time cleaning up websites for you before you view them.

• 9

  The Turing Test is over. Enjoy spending your ad dollars showing things to my Qwen.

• 6

  I hope ad people see the writing on the wall, get scared, and pivot to user aligned business model.

Tone

opinionated, provocative, techno-optimist