Where my head is at with LLMs and the web

I have been writing a lot over at aifoc.us for the past year (actually, my last post on this site was a year and a day ago), and I've spent a lot of time exploring the risks and opportunities for the web, and the challenges that I think we need to adapt to as an ecosystem. I kept it distinct from this site because I know that quite a few web developers who follow my content are not fond (to put it mildly) of LLMs and the AI industrial complex, and I felt it would be good to split the two. I will keep publishing my posts on the other site, but I thought it might be good to try and pull together the 30-odd posts that I've created and try and explain where my head is at and provide some colour on how I got there. Before I dive too deep, I think we are potentially in a golden age for the web, with a massive influx of people having major barriers to entry removed. Barriers that once were the reason why people preferred Instagram and similar services are being lowered to the point where…