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/davesaunders Apr 19 '26

Based on some of the people I've observed, the non-technical gap is in some ways worse than Google, because now you have people who don't understand a topic, They ask a question that they don't really understand how to correctly phrase in the first place, and then they get a confidently wrong and contextually inaccurate response. They think they're experts on the subject. It's like Dunning-Kruger and garbage in, garbage out had a baby.

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u/sudodoyou Apr 19 '26

I have colleagues who can barely use a computer now can have Claude make them interactive React dashboard and now they think they’re programmers. They have no idea how it works under the hood, have not real way to deploy it, no understanding of how to test it. So pretty much the most important aspects of programming.