Pew: 99% of searchers stop at the AI summary

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What Web Browsing Data Tells Us About How AI Appears Online https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2025/05/23/what-web-browsing-data-tells-us-about-how-ai-appears-online/
Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/07/22/google-users-are-less-likely-to-click-on-links-when-an-ai-summary-appears-in-the-results/
AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/24/ai-summaries-causing-devastating-drop-in-online-news-audiences-study-finds
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/

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Google AI Overviews: Publishers file competition complaints in UK and EU https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/07/publishers-file-competition-complaints-in-uk-and-eu-over-googles-ai-overviews/
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“Vibe Coding Day 8” https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1945840482019623082
Bay Area tech CEO apologizes after product goes ‘rogue’ https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bay-area-tech-product-rogue-ceo-apology-20780833.php
Jason M. Lemkin AI https://www.delphi.ai/saastr/talk

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‘Guys, I’m under attack’ — AI ‘vibe coding’ in the wild https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/18/guys-im-under-attack-ai-vibe-coding-in-the-wild/
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Supporting kernel development with large language models https://lwn.net/Articles/1026558/
Provisions to the contribution guidelines for using LLM generated code https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2025-January/004257.html
“As a maintainer, I expect two things from contributors” https://lobste.rs/s/gkpmli/if_ai_is_so_good_at_coding_where_are_open#c_ftombp
[RFC/PATCH] SubmittingPatches: forbid use of genAI to generate changes https://lwn.net/ml/all/xmqqcyalm0mh.fsf@gitster.g/
docs: define policy forbidding use of AI code generators https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/3d40db0efc22520fa6c399cf73960dced423b048
NetBSD Commit Guidelines https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

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If AI is so good at coding ... where are the open source contributions? https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/if-ai-is-so-good-at-coding-where-are-the-open-source-contributions/
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