These are the kinds of comments that make comments worth reading. Thank you!

There's another cheeky example of this where you select a pseudo-random seed that makes your result significant. I have a personal seed, I use it in every piece of research that uses random number generation. It keeps me honest!

One of the big problems I have with cursor is that it ignores the rules frequently. For example, working in the front-end it will sometimes totally ignore all the components that I have explicitly told it to use. Would this... fix that?

This would help, but you can also use a more aggressive approach to cursor rules: https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/

Using file pattern matching and automatic attachment makes it much, much more sticky in my experience.

I actually had Claude Desktop with the file system MCP write me out a pretty nice suite of rules directly in the .cursor/rules folder.

This article is great but it doesn't even talk about the assistant. The assistant is an LLM powered version of Kagi. It's been my daily driver for months and the productivity boost is incredible. I rarely ever use kagi's actual search functionality anymore unless I'm looking for something very niche. I love that you can also swap models. Happy customer here!

It is one year old, the assistant was not out yet afaik

I agree they cannot ignore llms in search nowadays despite a few ppl here not liking them

The Assistant product is incredible. It's been my daily driver (+Cursor), since September. I don't even bother with normal search results unless I really can't find something (like a specific GitHub issue that hasn't been cached yet)

Is the assistant similar to perplexity? Or something different?

It's basically Perplexity, but in some ways better. I'll edit my comment to make that more clear.

It's more similar to chatgpt search. E.g. it does real time search and gets the AI to summarize/rank/interpret the results for you.

Not true. It's a full fledged LLM aggregator. Here's Anthropic's answer to the most important question of all time, served by Kagi Assistant (with the correct answer). https://share.cleanshot.com/xB7W8mwD

I love that you can pin, raise or lower results from specific websites. They also set it up so you can see popular raise/lower and pins. It's wonderful. Trust me too, it's worth it. ~850 searches a month here.

> They also set it up so you can see popular raise/lower and pins.

That sounds really interesting, have to check those out! I've only used that feature minimally so far.

> have to check those out!

Dropping a quick link if anyone is interested: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard

Also, as always, a great potential for abuse :(

Yes, you can ask it for small web results and they are mostly personal websites.

Linux desktop has come a long way. KDE, Gnome and newer shells that layer on top like Pop Shell are really a joy to use. I very rarely use Windows anymore except for gaming where there are still some compatibility issues. Steam has done great work here too. Battery life on a laptop is still an area where you might prefer to go the WSL route.

The product is great. I love that I can pin, raise or lower the importance of specific websites. I average about 800 searches a month, and I have only had to go to another search engine maybe once or twice a week. This product feels like what the web should be.

The good old airplane damage diagram came to mind immediately!

You're referring to the visualization in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias