Google has actively become catastrophically bad to the point that it will ignore the only special keyterm I deliberately looking for for more general dumb results.. like it is literally unusable - I used to be able to find that very specific stackoverflow answer I have read years ago, or some barely read blogpost, and now I’m happy if it actually finds the website if I search for the domain name..
GPT would be good as a search engine, but who would want a search engine that stopped indexing a few years back? Also, it is not good at ultra niche topics, which would be the whole point of a search engine.
Huh, I can't seem to get in the groove of using it, maybe I'm old or something, but it annoys me all the subtle ways it's wrong and I feel I have a much better grasp if I think through it myself supported by Google.
I get a lot of mileage out of ChatGPT just treating it like an intern who turns around work instantly. You don't expect interns to write perfect code, but they can save you a ton of time if you set them loose on the right problems.
For any relatively simple task I can say "Write a Python script to do X" and it will almost always spit out working code, even if it has subtle mistakes. Fixing mistakes is fine and part of the process. I don't have to read StackOverflow posts saying "Do you really want to do X?", or sift through documentation that follows the author's approach of how they want to introduce the material but doesn't directly address my question.
Not OP, but I always want to read the code generated by chatgpt before I run it. And I dislike reading other people's code much more than writing it myself.
Especially now that the training cutoff is being moved up to April 2023. Questions requiring more recent results were the main ones I’ve been going back to google for.
Part of this is that ad infested AI generated blog spam is flooding Google! But it’s also my go to. I also really liked GPT to bring me up to speed on a libraries I’ve never used.
