"Most people don’t provide their context. They never have—not to search engines, not to librarians, not to hardware store clerks."

Exactly. Are hardware store clerks unethical as well?

I found that most tools online are either overly simplistic, non-responsive, and/or require you to hand over a bunch of contact information before getting results. I built snappy web tools for retirement planning, budgeting, debt paydown, house hacking, etc. that show you quickly and visually how changing variables like interest rates, savings rates, inflation, etc. impact your financial positioning.

It does feel like this prescription for strategic latency for important actions will only decay in value with time, though. Today people expect latency for important actions because historically that's been the case. But as people get more accustomed to AI and faster compute, I imagine programming in strategic latency will become less and less wise.