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Your circles might have a little more technical literacy than most. I'm working part time in retail at a hardware store currently and the amount of people who come in looking for parts specified exclusively by a single AI overview is mindboggling. People repairing car engines come in looking for bolts with specific lengths, materials, and thread pitches that AI told them they needed. I haven't had anyone come back and explicitly tell me that AI led them wrong, but I'm sure they've had to make multiple trips back out here.


Hardware repairs done by AI recommendations sounds really scary and dangerous.


TBF: people overconfident in their DIY fixing skills are precisely the sort replacing searches with an LLM query.




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