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No arguments to what you wrote.
I'd add that llms are increasingly the only way I can find useful technical information on anything anymore.
Of course this is solving a problem that shouldn't fucking exist in the first place, and I still need to take that information back to a search engine to verify it and do actual research, which may be the point.
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Search is so. Fucking. Broken.
Not that I'm taking a dig, but what are you looking for that only Ai can find it?
It's less about only being able to find it with ai but more about being able nail down definitions and understand the relationships between concepts well enough to know what to actually search for online.
This applies to anything remotely technical. Search results produce hot fucking garbage and the only way to find what you're looking for these days is to know exactly what you're looking for before you search. And even then it's a crapshoot whether you'll surface anything useful.
I honestly never look at the AI results because they're so flawed so often. I don't have an awful lot of problems finding answers to things with a standard search and then scrolling past any sources that are often crap. Worth noting, by the way, that search results, especially Google's, were way more accurate several years ago, before there were so many sponsored results and they had agendas to push. So technologically, it's a fixable situation, it's just the enshitificaiton problem.