Its ability to synthesize answers with data from numerous sources is also game-changing and not something a traditional search engine could ever hope to do.
It’s not infrequent that googling for the intricacies of some badly-documented library turns up almost nothing useful, or the bits that are useful are scattered sparsely among the results, some of which are pages deep. It’s so much easier to ask ChatGPT to explain the struct, function, etc in question and have it pull the pertinent info from whatever corners it of the internet it found these things in. Even if it’s only 80% accurate it’s a massive time saver.
It’s not infrequent that googling for the intricacies of some badly-documented library turns up almost nothing useful, or the bits that are useful are scattered sparsely among the results, some of which are pages deep. It’s so much easier to ask ChatGPT to explain the struct, function, etc in question and have it pull the pertinent info from whatever corners it of the internet it found these things in. Even if it’s only 80% accurate it’s a massive time saver.