that wasn't my point at all. The point I was making is these tools make forever renters of intelligence. That's why I mentioned the Black Mirror episode.
It's not enough to have options in which service to rent forever.
Imagine if you had to rent your own own dictionary or calculator forever.
You can choose to lock in a choice now: download a list of the top 10,000 websites or grab a local LLM. But realize that you will have to pay again as it ages out of relevance, or be left with a worthless out of date tool. The reality is you have to pay, forever (ooh, scary) for services. That’s what you’re renting: knowledge as a service. Whether it’s an LLM, continued program updates, or just an up-to-date encyclopedia.
It also seems you are overindexing on current, volatile events. Unless you're in Quantum space, Newton's laws haven't changed in a while. Sorting algorithms still function the same as does the x86 instruction set or how the human body reacts to ibuprofen.
Did I get your point, or am I missing something?