This post is a good piece of evidence that the value of LLMs is driven far more by the circumstances surrounding them than by positive value they bring. All I see is a society in which people are stretched insanely thin (even the software engineers work on monetized side projects, for god's sake), where basic needs like proper education and time to focus are degrading or too expensive, where information gathering has…
First, I would argue that LLM provide incredibly value today. From language learning, asking about how to a specific manufacturing machine works, to simply grabbing the time zone of a city I list. They had value and are only getting better. Search still exists but I wonder in a few years if it still exists like we see today.
Second, your framing is truly of the doom and gloom of humanity. I dont think we are stretched any more than we have been in the past. Things are different for sure, both the success and problems, but what a time to be alive, I can watch media from all around the world and have a LLM speak with me through any query I have.
Lastly, I just don’t think search is that bad. I pay for Kagi but the vanilla google experience is not the end of the world. You still can generally find what you want.