I’ve had a free subscription to Perplexity AI Pro for almost a year and have only just gotten around to adding its extension to Chrome. The subscription renews at full price next month, and I need to decide if it’s worth the hefty spend. My Rabbit R1 barely works in the office – wifi is terrible up here and its reception isn’t strong.

And, to be honest? “AI” hasn’t fully worked itself into my life yet. It’s an occasional tool for research, but I have too much muscle memory for “just typing shit into search bars on web browsers.”

Until relatively recently, I’ve considered AI to be basically a toy, one with significant ethical and social strikes against it. For me, it’s been a great occasional tool for research, or to confirm that was actually Christopher Walken in an episode of KOJAK. I may be missing something. Or I may not be and would be completely justified in going full Hojoki.