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I still search by default but i am starting to turn to LLMs when the search is failing and getting better answers.

For example, I couldn’t remember the word shibboleth, but an LLM was able to give me it from my description, search couldn’t.

For another example, I saw some code using a repeated set of symbols as a shorthand. I didn’t know what this does, but searching for a symbol is badly broken on Google - i just asked the LLM about the code and it gave me the answer.




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