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Ask HN: Have you naturally stopped using AI?

3 points by MattyRad ↗ HN
Initially impressed by "agentic" AI, I binged it quite a bit at first, but have unintentionally/naturally found myself reducing my usage to zero.

Has anyone experienced a natural decline- to the point of being off of AI cold turkey?

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Bender
I used to be curious what Google's AI summary would say but found it to be wrong most of time for my searches so I don't expand it any more. I do not use any of the other AI and go out of my way to disable any form of it on every OS and application. In my opinion Google should dump its entire data-set, start over and work on better input filters.
A_D_E_P_T
Quite the opposite, actually. GPT-5 Pro + Deep Research has enabled me to automate certain aspects of my workflow (data analysis and parsing formal logic), and it's about 3-5x more efficient than a human assistant would be. I basically keep it running all the time, and I'm beginning to feel vaguely guilty if I don't.
bdangubic
completely opposite, integrated now into every facet of everything that I do, work-wise, side-project-wise, life-wise...
rhelz
I never use it for programming, but Deep Seek is really good at making tzk pictures for latex and that saves me a lot of time.
Fizzadar
For coding I only use it for simple or easy tasks, given up with anything complicated because I’m sick of hand holding it (I have children already!).

But for marketing… as someone with zero marketing skill, pretty useful.

JohnFen
Yes, I haven't personally found it's worth the trouble. YMMV.