[jrmann100]

I find ChatGPT most helpful as a "what's that called" tool. A lot of my queries are finding/confirming the right idiom when writing something, or getting a specific name out of a vague description (JavaScript concepts, shell commands, CSS selectors).

Search engines with SEO are so reliant on keywords that it often feels like I'm suggesting answers rather than asking questions - it's so refreshing to be able to just ask again.

[victorbjorklund]

Yea, this is great. I used it alot for this. When you kind of know what you wanna do but you dont know the technical term.

Like if you dont know it is called sharding but you know you wanna store stuff on several databases.

Me: I have a postgresql database but it has too much data in it. I wanna split the data in several databases. What is that called?

GTP: Splitting a database into multiple smaller databases is known as database sharding. Sharding is a technique used to horizontally partition large databases across multiple servers or instances in order to distribute the workload and improve performance. Each shard is typically hosted on a separate physical or virtual machine and stores a subset of the total data, allowing for more efficient queries and faster data retrieval.

Then i know what to google for

[echelon]

It's replaced Google for the "what's that called" tool.

Google used to be good at that task, but it's sucked for the last four years or so. Whenever they gave up on search and leaned into sludge content plus ads.

ChatGPT is better than Google ever was anyway.

[jimnotgym]

GPT is better than Google for something like, 'how do I implement nested blog post comments in Flask'

And much worse than Google for, "site:miguelgrinberg.com nested comments"

Unfortunately I don't know the equivalent of Miguel for everything I need to know, so on average I suppose GPT is better. However it also means that you may never discover the Miguel of your domain!

[tbran]

Dude! I just did that search and now I'm reading Miguel's blog. Good stuff! Thank you!

[jimnotgym]

You are most welcome. Now how do we make a search engine that finds the Miguel for every domain?

[jhanschoo]

I hope it's going to remain that way, but the realistic cynic in me tells me that using ChatGPT to discover stuff is going to increasingly suck more now that people are going to try to target ChatGPT for SEO.

[duckmysick]

It's also helpful with explaining acronyms. Something like `What does SEO mean in "Search engines with SEO are so reliant on keywords"`.