Skeptic to Mollick: Most People Just Use LLMs as a Faster Google, Rarely for Mission-Critical Work
iruletheworldmo · x · 2026-10-07
@iruletheworldmo responds to Ethan Mollick, arguing he may overestimate LLM use cases:
- Most people use them as a quicker Google or for meal ingredients;
- At most, monitoring email and booking flights;
- Outside of coding, few people use LLMs for anything mission-critical.
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