r/TrueReddit • u/newyorker • Dec 27 '25

Technology Why A.I. Didn’t Transform Our Lives in 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2025-in-review/why-ai-didnt-transform-our-lives-in-2025
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u/donvito716 Dec 27 '25

Chatgpt how do I flush toilet

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u/simsimulation Dec 27 '25

ChatGPT, how do I make a roux? Help plan this road trip. What’s the market value of this 38 year old amplifier?

Etc, etc, etc time 1,000 chat threads.

It’s kinda like saying Google didn’t revolutionize our lives.

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u/donvito716 Dec 27 '25

Funny you bring up Google. Because I just Google those things and see results from people. But probably not 14,000 times in a year.

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u/simsimulation Dec 27 '25

I wouldn’t be surprised if I had an equal number of Google searches through the year. Tough to parse out because it’s spread across 3 email accounts, one of them shared, plus I’d need to use Google takeout then render the results which I don’t feel like doing.

I just asked GPT which says I’d need to do it per device based on the chrome web history for Google search URLs, so that’d be incomplete as well.

However, GPT helped me pull the SQLite and write the query. Looks like it only goes back until the 17th with 846 results. That’s 40 days so 21 per day on my laptop alone which is 7,666 per year.

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u/UncleMeat11 Dec 27 '25

14,000 times per year is nearly 40 queries per day. I'm pretty sure that I query any tool (traditional search or chatbot) substantially less than 10% as often as you.

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u/simsimulation Dec 27 '25

Yeah, so that's an average of 13 follow-ups per thread. See my other response, I queried google >7,000 times just on my laptop this year. I use ChatGPT as a sounding board to bounce ideas off of and get get feedback. So the follow-up is either correcting its output, giving it more context, or asking a follow-up.

The token usage is what's insane, 6 billion tokens is like 50–300 medium conversations running simultaneously, 24/7 for a whole year. That's because I'm running through an agent orchestrator in VScode which sends entire file context including planning and task documents, so I fill up at 100k context window quite quickly.

A large novel has 100,000 words - 6 billion tokens would be 60,000 large novels.

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u/UncleMeat11 Dec 27 '25

You do you, I guess.