Comment by disgruntledphd2

> For me it's less about saving time, and more about potentially unearthing good sources that my google searches wouldn't turn up, and occasionally giving me a few nuggets of inspiration / new rabbit holes to go down.

Yeah, I see the value here. And for personal stuff, that's totally fine. But these tools are being sold to businesses as productivity increasers, and I'm not buying it right now.

I really, really want this to work though, as it would be such a massive boost to human flourishing. Maybe LLMs are the wrong approach though, certainly the current models aren't doing a good job.