u/Ok_Bird7947

Ran an informal study. 500 product-recommendation prompts across ChatGPT's search mode, logged every cited source. Plan was to share the breakdown internally, but now I'm curious whether what I'm seeing is consistent with other verticals or just mine.

What have others observed? Is the source distribution relatively stable across niches, or does it vary a lot by category?

Edit: Thanks, this matches my data surprisingly well. Running my full 500-prompt breakdown against Parse's aggregate for a sanity check before publishing. Will post the writeup here once it is done.

I'm at an SEO conference in my city.

And I met this 22-year-old "SEO expert" who was looking for a job, and he gave me a 20-minute speech about how SEO was dead and that there was no point in working on it.

That now you should only focus on geo-optimization! I didn't say much because I disagreed with him so much, haha, but I listened anyway!

I wanted to tell you about it because it's funny, the opinion of some young people on this subject!

I’ve used AI tools for coding a little, but I found that the quality of the code isn’t very good. As a developer who gets paid to build products, I don’t feel that handing over the entire task to AI is professional. Even with AI, fundamental coding skills still seem to be required.

On top of that, products built mainly with AI feel unstable. and honestly, I wouldn’t want to work with teammates who rely too much on AI for their coding. Am i too anti‑AI? but that’s how I see it right now.

He gave us this directive two days ago... Knowing that I'm an SEO expert by training, I'm really hesitant to resign from my job.

What a stupid idea to want to quit SEO... he must have watched 5 podcasts on GEO and had FOMO to get into it.

And I know what you're going to say, but it's impossible to talk to him... so I think I'm going to leave! People can be so stupid sometimes with this kind of thing.