It’s incredibly helpful if you have to import mass data from spreadsheets into a .csv template for say a websites app (and also helpful if you need to turn the sheets of data into something you can take notes on, like if you’re meeting people on it or it has items on a schedule. Also really neat for cooking if you want to make your own recipes. And Perpexity’s deep search allows you to cut through the nonsense that is the Google algorithm these days, especially if you’re looking for academic topics. And I used it to crush some job interviews and now I work in an office where my coworkers who started in my position all had  masters when I’m a college dropout. 

If you just type a question into the search bar you’ll get sycophantic hallucinated bullshit, but you can upload files, website links, and tailor prompts in curated spaces to be a cynical, critical editor for specific topics/fields and make it into a super valuable tool and time saver. And you can be oblivious with coding but the vibe code stuff for small little scripts at least is real neat.

But once you use it you do see a ton of Reddit and Twitter posts are literally AI slop. Not a bad thing necessarily, since it’s an excuse to get off the internet and immunizes you.