This rings far truer for me. I don’t understand the psychosis of somehow allowing LLM responses to have an emotional impact on you, to make you think or believe a certain thing, to the extent that you blow up your own life over it - thank god I don’t have whatever flaw others have that make them ridiculously vulnerable to that.

One key point is that - “pick any topic where people disagree” - most knowledge-seeking I perform via a chat bot is to get a sense of what most people generally agree upon. A quick poll of the zeitgeist of the corpus it was trained on. What used to take me 10-15 minutes on Google now takes me 2-3 minutes with Gemini.

That holds true for Claude code too - I’m relying upon the fact that other people have already solved my problem, or have at least solved the components I need to tie together into a solution for my problem - I’m just fast forwarding through the process of digging them up myself and making sure they’re interoperable. The lion’s share of the tasks I set forth for an LLM is just ‘go find me something like this.’

How some people get from that, to weeks of AI-triggered mania, I simply do not understand.