You’re not crazy. AI is an useful tool I use daily for quickly summarizing things and for writing code that would otherwise be tedious as hell. I also use it for tips on certain issues in code for learning.

DeepSeek cost so little because they were able to use the billions that OpenAI and others spent and fed that into their training. DeepSeek would not exist (or would be a lot more primitive) if it weren’t for OpenAI.

The same has been also said about every tech revolution.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." —Ken Olsen, Founder of Digital Equipment

Give it some time, the progress is pretty fast

CNN bleh