ok, but if you don't have a lot of prior experience in this domain, how do you know your solution is good?

*zero experience

Short answer: No idea. Because I don't trust my existing sources of feedback.

Longer answer:

I've only gotten feedback from two sources...

AI (multiple models) and a friend that's a SWE.

Despite my best efforts to shut down AI's bias towards positive feedback - it keeps saying the work is ridiculously good and thinks I need to seriously consider a career change.

My friend - who knows my lack of experience - had a hard time believing I did the work. But he's not a believable source - since friends won't give you cold, hard feedback.

I'm thinking about sharing it on here when it's done.

> shift search to an infrastructure, a way to get contextualized, synthesized answers directly, tailored to your specific need

what if my specific need involves the answer being correct?

or by "specific need" did you mean my dopamine addiction and/or my need to be affirmed and pandered to?

Is it better than google search 20 years ago, when most web content was authoritative and not SEO crap?

Is it better than google search 20 year ago, when "google-fu" was a thing (look it up, google-fu refers to the ability to "ask a far more nuanced question about the kind of information you are looking for").

Weimar-a-largo

> Do the math on how many people are necessary... you're describing a distributed team of maybe 10 people, likely less. Let's assume you need $600K/year to run this business

Using the heuristic that HR costs are 2x the gross salary, the 10 people are earning 30K/year gross salary (no bonus). And I'm not leaving any room to pay for the compute/storage infra.