"AI can be wrong" - like that hasn't been a problem with humans since forever... Like with any information, you have to be diligent. I teach my kids this also.
Helpful and useful? Yes. A huge help? Game changing? I would say no.
And at a larger scale, is this help in general worth the energy and water expenditure needed?
Edit: to be clear the second point is not against the individual, but questioning whether the modest gains in convenience for all users are worth the environmental and infrastructure cost
debug -- cursor.sh for coding/debugging with your codebase as context. also just raw inputting into claude is pretty effective.
And then there's the tasks where Google just doesn't play.
Things like this: "Write the code to parse the following line with PyParser: { blah=0x10, foo=0x20, l={1,4,5,7}, t = { a="hello", b="hi"} }"
Google just gives me a link to PyParser (yay!), ChatGPT provides the full code and even runs it to show that it works.
in terms of consumer use for it to just search for info, and write code is a total failure. i mean by their words really.
we are basically told it will be integrated in dang near everything and uses electricity