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What about just using perplexity? It's already doing that I think.

I don't think AI search engines are a proper replacement for regular ones. The summaries are almost always worse than finding a proper article, which gives better context and editing (and doesn't make many subtle mistakes).

I think it depends on the specific query. If I'm looking for something specific like the date of a holiday, traditional search is better. If I'm querying about a programming issue that would land me on several SO pages that I need to piece together to get the full answer, LLM chat can save me a bunch of time and answer in terms of my specific variable names

> If I'm querying about a programming issue that would land me on several SO pages that I need to piece together to get the full answer

If I have to piece together multiple SO answers, the issue is complex enough that I better actually understand it. I am not at the point where I am trusting an LLM for this.

> LLM chat can [...] answer in terms of my specific variable names

Which has value 0 for me. What are you doing that this is an asset? Generating a huge block of code? Write a function!

Edit: in fact, parent is the author of a complex configuration managmeent tool (see profile) so getting a big block of code regurgitated with the correct variable names is probably an asset for them.

Here's an example I like to share, re: when LLMs can be better than doing the searching myself: https://topicalsource.dev/chat/023e7e54-947b-490d-bcd8-89cc2...

I understand the concepts, it's not complex, but it's something I don't use or do daily. One of the other differences with working with LLMs over search is that I can provide a lot more input as part of my query. That context is often used within the answer, a much better experience than having to map multiple other examples onto mine.

Also, I am not the author of a complex configuration management tool. Not sure what you are misreading. I have authored a deterministic code generation tool, maybe that is what you mean? It however is an alternative to LLM code generation that existed prior to the current LLM hype cycle

If you don't like LLMs, that is totally fine. You don't need to put down other people's usage or question why or how they get value out of it with feigns. Perhaps you might consider spending more time with the new knowledge tools that will not be going away. I just tried out the new Gemini Research assistant with the query...

""" google has an open source project that enables pull requests to be embedded into a git repository and also comes with a gui. Can you help me find this project? """

It took a couple of minutes and came back with exactly the project I was looking for. Saved me a bunch of time and headache trying to find this: https://github.com/google/git-appraise

I didn't have to know the exact search words or phrases, I didn't have to filter through multiple search results. I worked on this post while my LLM assistant did it for me

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