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Comments like these make me feel like we're living in different worlds. I use LLMs multiple times a day and they've significantly improved my quality of life. T

Comments like these make me feel like we're living in different worlds. I use LLMs multiple times a day and they've significantly improved my quality of life. They are also steadily becoming more useful over time (e.g. now solving math problems).

HerbManic 5mo ago
I suppose many do live in different worlds. I haven't found anything out of LLM's that has improved my life. It was a fun little toy but could never find a use case. But clearly, your mileage varies greatly from mine. That's cool. I just personally don't the use in more when what I think many need is less. But that comes from essentially this point of view - “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” ― Buddha
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thuuuomas 5mo ago
Do you use Grok multiple times per day? Is Grok solving Erdos problems?
- worik 5mo ago
  > Do you use Grok multiple times per day? No body who has a choice is using Grok > Is Grok solving Erdos problems? Mēh! At a slower rate than models a fraction of the price
  - minton 5mo ago
    > No body who has a choice is using Grok The Grok app had over 100 million downloads in 2025, over 60 million active users, and generated $350 million in revenue. That’s a lot of people being forced to use it.
    - brazukadev 5mo ago
      Grok revenue is like 100x smaller than xai estimated capex? Doesn't look great.
      - baobabKoodaa 5mo ago
        Still more than I expected based on anecdotal experience
hedora 5mo ago
I do too, and pay $200/month, but anthropic’s margins on that revenue are negative. What’s the long term plan? Make it up on margin? 100% tariffs on Chinese open weight models? I don’t plan on pulling from my 401k for decades, so the long term plan is the part I care about.
- sothatsit 5mo ago
  Enterprises are paying API prices, which are ~9x the price of the plan for the same usage. A lot of people on the plans are not maxing them out either.
- kaon_2 5mo ago
  Why would Anthropic margin's be negative? Inference is practically free for them, so what costs do they have for an additional subscription?
  - deaton 5mo ago
    amortized training costs
threetonesun 5mo ago
I’d love it if for once someone on here saying LLMs are some life changing apparatus would give a single example.
- hedora 5mo ago
  We have some exotic chicks the kids picked out, and 4 were going to die of brooder pneumonia. An LLM correctly diagnosed it, and figure out that we could treat them with Nutri-drench Sheep Supplement, since Tractor Supply was sold out of the chicken version, and they are very similar. Of course it then immediately recommended we use hemp bedding that would kill them a different way, but the saleswoman sanity checked all of the above, 100% survival rate. Everyone’s thriving. Chickens would follow the medical advice again, I guess.
  - 1over137 5mo ago
    Sounds like you have only the saleswoman to thank, not the bot.
  - WellCalcs 5mo ago
    [flagged]
- olalonde 5mo ago
  I can give some recent examples. - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. - Using it daily for Chinese-English translation. Significantly better than pre-LLM translation software. Also, great at teaching grammar, nuances, etc. - General Q&A. Like "Googling" but much faster. This is probably the most common use case for me.
  - alpha_squared 5mo ago
    > - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. This is exactly the point that keeps coming up that folks are struggling to grasp, myself included. How are you measuring this? It certainly makes me feel productive, but I'm not sure I can confidently say it has actually made me more productive. It's made the easy stuff a no-brainer (e.g. boilerplate, simple logic) and the moderate stuff really hard. Never mind the hard stuff. Vetting the code has become a whole other job on its own. The only folks I've found who confidently claim it increases productivity appear to be online (and without evidence), because no one in person is willing to claim that and show it.
dartharva 5mo ago
Even if they are, it still doesn't justify the ridiculous levels of overvaluation. They are not essentials and their consumer demand is extremely elastic.
HDBaseT 5mo ago
I use LLMs daily, both as chat applications and "vibe coding". I wouldn't say it "significantly improved my life" however. Everything AI has done for me right now is a "Nice to have" but it doesn't fulfill my needs.
newsicanuse 5mo ago
Comments like these make me feel like AI is a computer in the hands of a monkey, and that too the computer which is unreliable.
sdevonoes 5mo ago
It’s because people value different things. I could not care less if LLMs make me push code faster to prod. Couldn’t care less if they improve my emails grammar. Couldn’t care less if they crack one unsolved math problem.
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- olalonde 5mo ago
  You do not care about these things in general or it's the idea that an LLM is involved that makes you not value them?
TrackerFF 5mo ago
I think it is a typical example of where N% (N tends to zero) of the population GREATLY benefits AI models, while the next bracket (casual users) enjoy some benefit, but the vast majority would not feel any difference if they lost the tech tomorrow. Let me rephrase that to you: The vast, vast majority of people, even in the western world, even the white-collar part of the population, are not whales or power users of AI models. I use ChatGPT daily. And I never spend more than $25/month. If I lost it, it would suck, but it would not affect my life significantly. I then see people spending $100 / day on Claude Code tokens, programmers in startups / tech companies rack up thousands a month in bills. These people are literally spending 100x more than me, a casual user. Yeah, I suspect they follow some sort of whale economics - where a relatively small userbase (in the big picture) and providing them with a huge chunk of their revenue. But still these companies are being valued as if they're some omnipresent companies which humanity simply can't live without.
curtisblaine 5mo ago
So, let's see. LLMs made my overall coding output significantly faster, even factoring in review time and tech debt. My employer should technically benefit from this, but it doesn't really, because all its competitors use the same AIs and all their engineers increased their throughput in a similar way. So I'm not sure that I, my colleagues or the whole segment I work in really benefited from AI in any measurable way.
- nickpp 5mo ago
  Your clients and your competitors' clients did benefit from this overall faster coding output though. Eventually your employer benefitted too, from more & happier paying customers. Finally you indirectly befitted as well - through continued employment, salary and bonuses and stock (if you own any).
  - curtisblaine 5mo ago
    But that didn't happen in reality, did it? Clients - I don't see anyone delighted that apps are better, or cheaper, or more secure. If anything, I see more enshittification, more half-baked ideas and more fear that security is worse now that we let AIs write almost all code. Employers - They didn't really sell more or expanded their customer base. They would have, if they had the exclusive advantage, but now everyone has AI. They can cram more features in their software quicker, but so can their competitors, and AI is not magically opening any untapped market. If anything, everyone is now doing the same thing - trying to get their software on the AI train, with mediocre results so far. You - did you benefit really? The job market is shit due to the death of ZIRP, the nature of the job itself is changing and there's a lot of uncertainty around. If anything, employees are now laid off more, not less, and salary and bonuses are not increased in any measurable way. It looks like to me that we have to dance this particular dance because if we don't do we're left behind. That's fine, it happens every now and then. It might even be that in the future we will have tangible advantages from LLMs - better automated health care, better learning opportunities come to mind. That has to be demonstrated. But now, in year 2026, what's one advantage of AI? Having less and pricier RAM? Being able (and expected) to write more code in less time?
gib444 5mo ago
Another generic, useless comment which absolutely refuses to mention any particular aspect, eg how your life has been improved. It's so tiring And when pushed all we get is another teaser of "Significantly increased my productivity"
deaton 5mo ago
I don't know if its really improved my life at all. Sure I can put together quick and dirty single-use programs faster I guess, but I feel like losing that practice has actively made me a worse developer.

HerbManic 5mo ago

I suppose many do live in different worlds. I haven't found anything out of LLM's that has improved my life. It was a fun little toy but could never find a use case. But clearly, your mileage varies greatly from mine. That's cool. I just personally don't the use in more when what I think many need is less. But that comes from essentially this point of view - “Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.” ― Buddha

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thuuuomas 5mo ago

Do you use Grok multiple times per day? Is Grok solving Erdos problems?

worik 5mo ago
> Do you use Grok multiple times per day? No body who has a choice is using Grok > Is Grok solving Erdos problems? Mēh! At a slower rate than models a fraction of the price
- minton 5mo ago
  > No body who has a choice is using Grok The Grok app had over 100 million downloads in 2025, over 60 million active users, and generated $350 million in revenue. That’s a lot of people being forced to use it.
  - brazukadev 5mo ago
    Grok revenue is like 100x smaller than xai estimated capex? Doesn't look great.
    - baobabKoodaa 5mo ago
      Still more than I expected based on anecdotal experience

hedora 5mo ago

I do too, and pay $200/month, but anthropic’s margins on that revenue are negative. What’s the long term plan? Make it up on margin? 100% tariffs on Chinese open weight models? I don’t plan on pulling from my 401k for decades, so the long term plan is the part I care about.

sothatsit 5mo ago
Enterprises are paying API prices, which are ~9x the price of the plan for the same usage. A lot of people on the plans are not maxing them out either.
kaon_2 5mo ago
Why would Anthropic margin's be negative? Inference is practically free for them, so what costs do they have for an additional subscription?
- deaton 5mo ago
  amortized training costs

threetonesun 5mo ago

I’d love it if for once someone on here saying LLMs are some life changing apparatus would give a single example.

hedora 5mo ago
We have some exotic chicks the kids picked out, and 4 were going to die of brooder pneumonia. An LLM correctly diagnosed it, and figure out that we could treat them with Nutri-drench Sheep Supplement, since Tractor Supply was sold out of the chicken version, and they are very similar. Of course it then immediately recommended we use hemp bedding that would kill them a different way, but the saleswoman sanity checked all of the above, 100% survival rate. Everyone’s thriving. Chickens would follow the medical advice again, I guess.
- 1over137 5mo ago
  Sounds like you have only the saleswoman to thank, not the bot.
- WellCalcs 5mo ago
  [flagged]
olalonde 5mo ago
I can give some recent examples. - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. - Using it daily for Chinese-English translation. Significantly better than pre-LLM translation software. Also, great at teaching grammar, nuances, etc. - General Q&A. Like "Googling" but much faster. This is probably the most common use case for me.
- alpha_squared 5mo ago
  > - Significantly increased my productivity as a software engineer. This is exactly the point that keeps coming up that folks are struggling to grasp, myself included. How are you measuring this? It certainly makes me feel productive, but I'm not sure I can confidently say it has actually made me more productive. It's made the easy stuff a no-brainer (e.g. boilerplate, simple logic) and the moderate stuff really hard. Never mind the hard stuff. Vetting the code has become a whole other job on its own. The only folks I've found who confidently claim it increases productivity appear to be online (and without evidence), because no one in person is willing to claim that and show it.

dartharva 5mo ago

Even if they are, it still doesn't justify the ridiculous levels of overvaluation. They are not essentials and their consumer demand is extremely elastic.

HDBaseT 5mo ago

I use LLMs daily, both as chat applications and "vibe coding". I wouldn't say it "significantly improved my life" however. Everything AI has done for me right now is a "Nice to have" but it doesn't fulfill my needs.

newsicanuse 5mo ago

Comments like these make me feel like AI is a computer in the hands of a monkey, and that too the computer which is unreliable.

sdevonoes 5mo ago

It’s because people value different things. I could not care less if LLMs make me push code faster to prod. Couldn’t care less if they improve my emails grammar. Couldn’t care less if they crack one unsolved math problem.

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olalonde 5mo ago
You do not care about these things in general or it's the idea that an LLM is involved that makes you not value them?

TrackerFF 5mo ago

I think it is a typical example of where N% (N tends to zero) of the population GREATLY benefits AI models, while the next bracket (casual users) enjoy some benefit, but the vast majority would not feel any difference if they lost the tech tomorrow. Let me rephrase that to you: The vast, vast majority of people, even in the western world, even the white-collar part of the population, are not whales or power users of AI models. I use ChatGPT daily. And I never spend more than $25/month. If I lost it, it would suck, but it would not affect my life significantly. I then see people spending $100 / day on Claude Code tokens, programmers in startups / tech companies rack up thousands a month in bills. These people are literally spending 100x more than me, a casual user. Yeah, I suspect they follow some sort of whale economics - where a relatively small userbase (in the big picture) and providing them with a huge chunk of their revenue. But still these companies are being valued as if they're some omnipresent companies which humanity simply can't live without.

curtisblaine 5mo ago

So, let's see. LLMs made my overall coding output significantly faster, even factoring in review time and tech debt. My employer should technically benefit from this, but it doesn't really, because all its competitors use the same AIs and all their engineers increased their throughput in a similar way. So I'm not sure that I, my colleagues or the whole segment I work in really benefited from AI in any measurable way.

nickpp 5mo ago
Your clients and your competitors' clients did benefit from this overall faster coding output though. Eventually your employer benefitted too, from more & happier paying customers. Finally you indirectly befitted as well - through continued employment, salary and bonuses and stock (if you own any).
- curtisblaine 5mo ago
  But that didn't happen in reality, did it? Clients - I don't see anyone delighted that apps are better, or cheaper, or more secure. If anything, I see more enshittification, more half-baked ideas and more fear that security is worse now that we let AIs write almost all code. Employers - They didn't really sell more or expanded their customer base. They would have, if they had the exclusive advantage, but now everyone has AI. They can cram more features in their software quicker, but so can their competitors, and AI is not magically opening any untapped market. If anything, everyone is now doing the same thing - trying to get their software on the AI train, with mediocre results so far. You - did you benefit really? The job market is shit due to the death of ZIRP, the nature of the job itself is changing and there's a lot of uncertainty around. If anything, employees are now laid off more, not less, and salary and bonuses are not increased in any measurable way. It looks like to me that we have to dance this particular dance because if we don't do we're left behind. That's fine, it happens every now and then. It might even be that in the future we will have tangible advantages from LLMs - better automated health care, better learning opportunities come to mind. That has to be demonstrated. But now, in year 2026, what's one advantage of AI? Having less and pricier RAM? Being able (and expected) to write more code in less time?

gib444 5mo ago

Another generic, useless comment which absolutely refuses to mention any particular aspect, eg how your life has been improved. It's so tiring And when pushed all we get is another teaser of "Significantly increased my productivity"

deaton 5mo ago

I don't know if its really improved my life at all. Sure I can put together quick and dirty single-use programs faster I guess, but I feel like losing that practice has actively made me a worse developer.