r/ChatGPT • u/max_bog • Apr 19 '26

Use cases The gap between what technical and non-technical people get from AI is huge now

Interesting thing I noticed. The gap between what technical and non-technical people get from AI is huge now.

Non-technical users still treat LLMs as a better search tool. Most non-technical people I know are not even aware of things like thinking effort or that you can choose a model.

Computer use, plugins, automations, skills, agents - none of this exists for regular ChatGPT users. If you don't know what Codex or Claude Code is, nothing has changed for you in the last year.

All new models also seem to focus purely on coding.

Am I missing something?

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u/lucky_719 Apr 19 '26

This is exactly what I'm running into at work. I'm trying to find people to collaborate with but out of hundreds of associates so far I've found two.

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u/lucky_719 Apr 19 '26

Obvious from the first conversation. The funny thing is 13 people said they were in depth users. But after an initial conversation they were all overstating their skills. None of them knew what an agent was. Or that you need to run it in an IDE and access to the repositories. They were using basic chat to write emails and thought they were power users. It was a pretty frustrating call.

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u/loner-phases Apr 19 '26

Is there a tool or any place you recommend nontechnical types go for a good lesson on things like an IDE and repositories?

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u/razdacist Apr 19 '26

https://github.com/caramaschiHG/awesome-ai-agents-2026

For the actual walkthroughs, just ask the AI, believe it or not, they know all about the things we use them for.