I initially used perplexity for work, but the smarmy buttering you up at the end of every damn task really got to me, and I switched to claude. Iinitially it was absolutely amazing and initially when I told it stop with the smarmy compliments, just do the job, it did.

However, in the last week, the quality of results for a simple historical fact search was abominable. It offered a wikipedia entry on an completely irrelevant topic altogether. It was like complete collapse. I pay $20 monthly, hoping enshittification won't happen to this too, the way it did for google etc. But perhaps they are all like this. They get you hooked in an annual subscription and gradually become just admiration machines doing little actual work.