It's even worse than it appears..
Tuesday April 15, 2025; 8:07 AM EDT
  • A few days ago I wrote: ChatGPT is to Google what Google was to library card catalogs.#
  • I got a chance to explain.#
  • The great thing about Google when it was first out was that unlike previous search products, they searched everything, including our blogs, and that opened up knowledge to us that had been previously, for all of our history as a species, not accessible.#
  • And LLMs are similarly revolutionary. I'm doing much better, deeper work, with great results for my users, than I could ever have accomplished with the system defined by Google. and for crying out loud it's not natural language search, all that tells me is you haven't bothered to use the freaking products before having a cynical opinion about them.#

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