Both of you are missing a lot of use cases. Outside of HN, not everyone uses an LLM for programming. A lot of these people use it as a diary/journal that talks back or as a Walmart therapist.
Both of you are missing a lot of use cases. Outside of HN, not everyone uses an LLM for programming. A lot of these people use it as a diary/journal that talks back or as a Walmart therapist.
Walmart therapist?
People use LLMs as their therapist because they’re either unwilling to see or unable to afford a human one. Based on anecdotal Reddit comments, some people have even mentioned that an LLM was more “compassionate” than a human therapist.
Due to economics, being able to see a human therapist in person for more than 15 minutes at a time has now become a luxury.
Imo this is dangerous, given the memory features that both Claude and ChatGPT have. Of course, most medical data is already online but at least there are medical privacy laws for some countries.
This is exactly why the two use cases need to be delineated.
As in cheap.