We are the Weirdos | Somewhat Useful Ep 48

Half of U.S. adults use an AI chatbot now. Only 4.5% pay for ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude. (Guess which group we're in.) In Ep. 48 of Somewhat Useful, Christy Price and Will Myers go through two new reports on how people use AI, then ask what the numbers mean if you build websites for a living. In this episode: Would you give an AI agent your credit card? Christy says yes, with guardrails. Will says no. Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and how much permission each of us hands over Why web designers are the weirdos. The median AI subscriber pays $25 a month. The top 1% pays about $903. Search is the #1 thing people use chatbots for. 44% of Americans use ChatGPT and 6% use Claude, so check where your client's customers are. Lovable, Canva, Figma, Claude Design... the build is getting crowded. Taste isn't. 71% of Americans think AI makes their personal info less secure. "Built by a human who answers your email" is a selling point. Lightning round: a bathtub injury, a 4th grade spelling bee grudge, and Will's walk-up song WEB DESIGN ROUNDTABLE We skipped sponsors this season to share our own things. Christy's is Web Design Roundtable, her community for Squarespace web designers. You get weekly prompts, feedback from other designers, and a classroom with trainings on finding your next client and setting your AI ground rules (contract clauses and email templates included). It starts at $17 a month, and $37 a month adds monthly group calls. https://christyprice.com/wdr SOURCES a16z, The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, 7th Edition: https://a16z.com/100-gen-ai-apps-7/ Pew Research Center, Americans and AI 2026: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/... Christy Price: https://christyprice.com Will Myers: http://will-myers.com/ Audio engineer: Rikki Gunton #SomewhatUseful #Squarespace #WebDesign #AI