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After Fixin’ the Bugs

Brent Simmons · 26 Aug 2026

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  1. Our reading

    NetNewsWire will not add AI features, even local ones, any time soon.

    Their wordsWe will not be doing any AI features, even local AI features, any time soon. I’m cautious about this kind of thing and I know how difficult it is to remove features, and I don’t know right now that AI is right for this app or how it might be right.

  2. Our reading

    The web itself should be the social network.

    Their wordsAnother consideration is NetNewsWire’s job in supporting the web. Which features advance the goal of interoperability and making the web itself the social network? This is why NetNewsWire exists, after all.

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