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Ask HN: Have you naturally stopped using AI?

3 points| MattyRad | 5 months ago

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?

8 comments

Bender|5 months 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.

PaulHoule|5 months 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.

simmerup|5 months 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

A_D_E_P_T|5 months 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.

rhelz|5 months 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.

JohnFen|5 months ago

Yes, I haven't personally found it's worth the trouble. YMMV.

bdangubic|5 months ago

completely opposite, integrated now into every facet of everything that I do, work-wise, side-project-wise, life-wise...

Fizzadar|5 months 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.