It is unsustainable. There is no way any of them are at such an exorbitant scale.

And they won’t until they start charging users who have habitualized AI use, just like they did to get the gig economy rolling.

All we need now to is to figure out which one is the Uber of digital personal assistants.

As an elder Millenial I still can’t wrap my brain around the fact that the high school grads I employ grew up post-YouTube and have been relying on LLMs for four years

In the past, say, dozen years, the way in which we consume media has become niche, and corridored straight to us.

Back in 1996, you graduated in a year when everyone would have seen the same yada-yada bit on Seinfeld and then talked about it the next day.

In 2026, what we see are our own narrowed corridors of media, brought to us twofold by the algorithm and the ease with which we can navigate to exactly what interests us.

Sometimes it feels good to find your place until…until you realize it’s isolating.

This is awesome, as is the number of people over in the XDA comments all finding a way to get angry at software they’ve never used.

There’s a dissonant sense of disbelief at just how brazenly the conservative machine in America initiates its agenda.