I pay for Kagi and Claude. I feel that the core of this decline in services is simply because nobody want to pay for what is of value.
Search is still useful. Claude is not good at citing sources. Search is great for doing my own research.
I’m hearing a lot of people just copy and paste LLM output as truth. From students to law clerks. LLMs are designed to output convincing text (not correct text) and for lazy people that’s good enough.
There will always be a need for searching raw data and making conclusions without an LLM
If current LLMs were perfect AGI then your lazy students and law clerks, they might even have a point. But you are setting the bar too high; LLMs are not perfect AGI. They hallucinate and you write bad prompts. Think of an LLM as more like a Dremel. Yeah, it isn't a Yamazaki Mazak. OTOH, search is like a screwdriver.
Search is still useful. Claude is not good at citing sources. Search is great for doing my own research.
I’m hearing a lot of people just copy and paste LLM output as truth. From students to law clerks. LLMs are designed to output convincing text (not correct text) and for lazy people that’s good enough.
There will always be a need for searching raw data and making conclusions without an LLM