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Personally, I don't "search" with ChatGPT. I ask and talk with it, and that's the big deal and the reason why the current query based search is dead. Think about your typical stackoverflow question. With Google you have to came up with a good query then start the tedious process of looking at the results. With ChatGPT you can directly ask for results, redirect the conversation, etc.

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Oh it's even better than that.

I literally had my cursor in my config file the other day and didn't know the option for disabling TLS verification (it's for an internal connection between two private certs), and i literally just put my cursor in the right place and then asked Copilot what I needed to disable verification, and it returned me the correctly formatted elixir code to paste in, 2-3 lines. And it was correct.

And I then googled for the same thing and I couldn't find that result, so I have no idea how Copilot figured it out.

Same here. And unlike stackoverflow or any other forum, if you have any additional questions, you don't have to wait for an answer (which could take seconds, years, or never).

And it's not judgmental. It will recommend a better way of doing things, but especially when you explain why you're doing a certain thing, it will help with actually doing it.

unfortunately, this will invariably turn the Internet into a barren wasteland.

Perhaps, or make low-quality content less prominent on the greater web, such as many sites that would never turn a profit except for blasting a bunch of ads.

I think you misunderstand.

if you get you content via proxy how many content generators will we lose?

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