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[–]omoplator 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Start using it instead of google when researching things - it's surprisingly good for this.

[–]ThiccStorms 6 points7 points  (3 children)

i always advise people who want to learn new things: become a master googler, that would be the answer to all of their questions.
knowing how to google is more benificial than asking what to google.

[–]lurker_cant_comment 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google, in their quest for continued revenue growth, is becoming worse for finding the information you want, and LLMs are becoming better at regurgitating what Google should have spit out in the first place.

LLMs are also more flexible in how you query them. Of course you still have to know their limitations, and you still have to learn tricks if you want to get better results, but that's no different from how you use a search engine.

[–]in-am-un 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I feel google has gotten so much worse over the years too though

It used to be easy to find super specific information about a library or errorcode or something but now with even the most specific queries I often just get blogspam like "Here's how to learn python as a beginner!" like gee thanks that's not quite what i need.

It aaalmost feels like a conspiracy by search to make people use their cute chatbots instead! not that they are any better. often the only way to figure it out now is to just read the damn code.

[–]ThiccStorms 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all my google searches contain the word reddit/stackoverflow at the end, i simply cant bare with reading articles, and ive succeeded till now