My wife, the farthest you can get from the HN crowd, literally goes to tears when faced with Excel or producing a Word doc and she is a regular user of copilot and absolutely raves about it. Very unusual for her to take up new tech like this and put it to use but she uses it for everything now. Horse is out of the barn.
> My wife, the farthest you can get from the HN crowd...
She is literally married into the HN crowd.
I think the real AI breakthrough is how to monetize the high usage users.
My Dad is elderly and he enjoys writing. Uses Google Gemini a few times a week. I always warn him that it can hallucinate and he seems to get it.
It's changed his entire view of computing.
My father says "I feel like I hired an able assistant" regarding LLMs.