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Remember when normies couldn’t even find what they wanted via normal web searches?
This seems like that.
maybe it was a mistake to lionize a corporate monopolist to the level where we ostracized people for not being “good” at using their trap of a product
My school had a class in the early 2000's on how to use a search engine. It certainly wasn't just about Google, at the time.
Are you telling me you never had that painful experience watching someone else use a computer to perform a search and struggle to find basic things? It's possible to be "bad" at it.
congrats on asking jeeves
is it bad to be bad at a system designed for exploitation? maybe your grandma had a point
What does three word normie mean to you
People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification.
Generally, people who don't know how to work with the systems. As it relates to newer LLM search tools, not knowing how to prompt it correctly to get the desired output, knowing the limitations of LLMs to prevent you from doing something stupid, and knowing to check the sources that most of these LLMs provide before fully trusting the info it provides.
Normies are the ones microwaving their phones after 4chan encouraged them to which happened way before LLMs were spitting out sometimes bad info. Those are the same people who are going to eat glue or whatever the LLM says because it read too much Reddit.
That's just googling with several wildly pointless extra steps of also googling.
I've got nothing against people not using LLM search if they don't find value in it.
That just doesn't describe me or my experience with it.
To be clear, the vast majority of my searches don't involve LLM results at all. But I'm glad to have it on the edge cases where I find it useful.
Such as?
I've used it for code, most often.
I've saved many hours of work with it, in languages I don't really even know.
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