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There is a vast difference between using AI to guide a process and making it the process. The problem has always been those who claim the later.
The reality is things are new type of search engine. The search engines we have relied on for the past 25 years have become trash so people are using these chargers in ways that are search adjacent.
Only fools take the output for either approach as a final product and the world isn't running low on fools.
Yeah I was thinking how useful Google circa 2010 was. Back then, it felt like an LLM-level productivity boost. Then it enshittified to the point that it can barely be used for anything at all.
Search engines, except they don't say where they got the results and fundamentally inefficient