<html class="apple-mail-supports-explicit-dark-mode"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">You’re right; web search is now just a funnel to Gemini; a low-context Gemini with Google as its MCP. <div>Claude is a power tool for me. As a hobbyist with scarce free time it has helped me finish projects that would have languished. But honestly if I spend an afternoon just prompting a console, it’s not very satisfying. It’s like cooking up a pcb and waiting for it to get fabricated. </div><div>What that experience does show me is how absurdly ambitious my ideas are and how fully implementing my ideas blows scope. I am very impressed with the results but get vertigo thinking about how steep the climb really was. </div><div>What Claude and Gemini both got wrong: Minimizing circuit noise. Only experimentation and patience got me through the hardware issues. I wasted some money buying parts they said would help. Won’t do that again, but it was one of the AI suggestions that led to an optimal solution. </div><div>I learned a lot because I am curious and can’t resist asking the model as many “whys” as possible. I can’t afford to do that at my day job. <br><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Benjamin Tremblay</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jul 23, 2026, at 5:27 AM, Adam (synthDIY) <synthdiy@adambaby.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 23 Jul 2026, at 18:58, Sarah Thompson via Synth-diy <synth-diy@synth-diy.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-thickness: auto; text-decoration-style: solid;">I miss having Google actually work properly as a search engine.</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br><div>That's an interesting comment - it makes me realise I have noticed this change in its behaviour.</div><div><br></div><div>A</div><span>________________________________________________________</span><br><span>This is the Synth-diy mailing list</span><br><span>Submit email to: Synth-diy@synth-diy.org</span><br><span>View archive at: https://synth-diy.org/pipermail/synth-diy/</span><br><span>Check your settings at: https://synth-diy.org/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy</span><br><span>Selling or trading? Use marketplace@synth-diy.org</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>