> Chauffeur Knowledge Going into this piece, I expected an analogy where the user is like an out-of-touch wealthy person, who builds a shallow model of the wor

> Chauffeur Knowledge Going into this piece, I expected an analogy where the user is like an out-of-touch wealthy person, who builds a shallow model of the world from what they hear from their LLM chauffeur or golf-caddy. That is something I fear will spread, as people give too much trust to the assistant in their pocket, turning to it at the expense of the other sources of information. > That's when it hit me: this is going to change everything; but not in the utopian "everything is magical" sense, but in the "oh, God, what have we done" sense. I think of it like asbestos, or leaded-gasoline. Incredibly useful in the right situation, but used so broadly that we regret it later. (Or at least, the people who didn't make their fortunes selling it.)