Comment by TacticalCoder

> ... we won't be left with an enduring and useful piece of infrastructure adding a trillion dollars to the global economy annually.

I'm not drinking the AGI kool-aid but I use LLMs daily. We pay not one but two AI subscriptions at home (including Claude).

It's extremely useful. From translation to proof-reading to synthetizing to expanding on something to writing little dumb functions to helping with spreadsheet formulas to documenting code to writing commit messages to helping find movie names (when I only remember very partially the plot) etc.

How is this not already adding a trillion dollars to the economy?

It's not about the infrastructure: all that counts are the models. They're here to stay. They're not going away.

It's the single biggest time-saver I've ever seen for mundane tasks (and, no, it doesn't write good code: it write shitty pathetic underperforming insecure code... And yet it's still useful for proofs of concept / one-offs / throwaway).