Most non-tech users just want ChatGPT as search, health advice and email drafts
bendee983 · x · 2026-09-10
bendee983 observes that most of his non-tech friends ignore the agent and custom-software narratives entirely — they don't even know what Claude Code or Codex is. Their real usage of ChatGPT: advanced search, health questions, email drafting, and silly images. Quoting @forgebitz: the average person doesn't understand how a computer works, so "everyone prompting their own software" is a small-subset fantasy. His takeaway: the benefits of AI advances are real, just not evenly distributed.
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