My workstation runs a local LLM that allows me to ask deeply technical questions in plain English and receive useful, usually highly accurate (95%+ of the time) responses in a few seconds.

It has no memory and requires no Internet access, so I feel generally comfortable interacting with it in a way that I do not when using Google or Facebook - if I randomly ask about drill presses or brownie recipes I will not suddenly be deluged by ads for toolboxes and Ozempic.

This to me is a radically powerful tool, and one that makes me skeptical of the "AI Bust" memes I see on occasion. There may be a lot of dumb money being poured into applying AI to problems it's ill suited for, but the things it is good at is such a positive step-function increase over the old tools that I cannot possibly imagine losing it.