Initially impressed by "agentic" AI, I binged it quite a bit at first, but have unintentionally/naturally found myself reducing my usage to zero.
Has anyone experienced a natural decline- to the point of being off of AI cold turkey?
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Bender•4mo ago
I used to be curious what Google's AI summary would say but found it to be wrong most of time for my searches so I don't expand it any more. I do not use any of the other AI and go out of my way to disable any form of it on every OS and application. In my opinion Google should dump its entire data-set, start over and work on better input filters.
simmerup•4mo ago
It's going to be really terrible when all the websites are full of AI generated content too, so the information is too muddy to work out whats right or wrong even if you try
PaulHoule•4mo ago
They have.
In the last few weeks Google has added an "AI Mode" to search which does really well for questions like: "What was the recent paper that showed that people are strongly alienated when social movements appeal to the legacy of the civil rights movement?" or "What was the Frederick Pohl story about people who could take over your body?"
It used to be that I was always remembering a paper I saw that came to some significant conclusion but had to work pretty hard to find it, Google now answers questions like that highly reliably.
A_D_E_P_T•4mo ago
Quite the opposite, actually. GPT-5 Pro + Deep Research has enabled me to automate certain aspects of my workflow (data analysis and parsing formal logic), and it's about 3-5x more efficient than a human assistant would be. I basically keep it running all the time, and I'm beginning to feel vaguely guilty if I don't.
bdangubic•4mo ago
completely opposite, integrated now into every facet of everything that I do, work-wise, side-project-wise, life-wise...
rhelz•4mo ago
I never use it for programming, but Deep Seek is really good at making tzk pictures for latex and that saves me a lot of time.
Fizzadar•4mo ago
For coding I only use it for simple or easy tasks, given up with anything complicated because I’m sick of hand holding it (I have children already!).
But for marketing… as someone with zero marketing skill, pretty useful.
JohnFen•4mo ago
Yes, I haven't personally found it's worth the trouble. YMMV.
Bender•4mo ago
simmerup•4mo ago
PaulHoule•4mo ago
In the last few weeks Google has added an "AI Mode" to search which does really well for questions like: "What was the recent paper that showed that people are strongly alienated when social movements appeal to the legacy of the civil rights movement?" or "What was the Frederick Pohl story about people who could take over your body?"
It used to be that I was always remembering a paper I saw that came to some significant conclusion but had to work pretty hard to find it, Google now answers questions like that highly reliably.