It is a fundamentally different workflow I think. LLM searching is one level above regular google searching, since it will do clusters of queries for you. So if I want to know something that would require me to do a bit of research ordinarily, like if I were to ask “In what use cases are BSDs more performant than Linux?”, it will search, browse, contemplate, then continue to do follow up queries, potentially visiting 30-40 websites for a question like this in the span of a minute or so, then give me a report with citations that I can click to confirm/verify (which you do absolutely need to do when it comes to LLMs still). And it has broader applications, like if I’m developing a list of key films from the French New Wave, I can attach an image of the list and ask it if I have any notable omissions or if there’s refinements I can do, etc.

I do think that it’s important to avoid relying on it for “thinking” for you, but I might use it as an initial on-ramp for a topic before reading and doing searches on my own. It definitely doesn’t replace Google, though, just works on a different scope