Absolutely agreed. It feels like tech companies forgot that they are supposed to add value to users. Theyve been shoving random AI usecases down their users throats with no regard for whether it works for the users flow or not. When theres so much value to be had from AI in normal products. Claude code is the best in this right now, probably because the engineers themselves are users.

This isnt unprecedented, its what happened in the dotcom bubble as well. But then that tech started getting used properly as well. So i think its a matter of time before claude code levels of value is avialable to normal users

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the_snooze an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>Absolutely agreed. It feels like tech companies forgot that they are supposed to add value to users.

They lost the plot long ago. They're firmly in extraction mode now: how much value can they get from end-users?

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new_account_100 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> When theres so much value to be had from AI in normal products.

Please elaborate

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MrDarcy an hour ago | parent [-]

Replace search for one.

	▲	kjkjadksj 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Proper search is far more powerful. I can set the weights for the results to various parameters, focusing on certain metadata in particular. Sad to see popular search tools have gone stupid in recent years. But search is still very powerful and Imo ai is no replacement for good search. An example of a powerful search engine is pubmed and the logic you can craft in your queries.