[arglebargle123]

Yes but also no. If you have an exact string query that'll turn up the topic you want then, sure, you can find a topic easily. If your question is more tangential, say you kind of know what topic you're looking for but don't know what it's called in language X's standard library, you're pretty basically SOL unless an author happened to mention a phrase you can match.

Using chat GPT to solve this problem seems pretty awesome, it would be super handy to query my (larger than it has any right to be) library of reference books using not-exactly-competent requests.

This and translating technical material into 5th grade reading level explanations are probably the best two uses of chat GPT I've seen yet.