[urlwolf]

This is a very good question, and I'm sure you will get valuable answers.

My take:

- More efficient than search engines at obscure problems, like configuring an unix tool. Help that you can ask 'explain step by step'

- It expands the range of topics you can read scientific papers in. You just ask it any topic or keyword you don't understand

- Good summaries of text that is valuable, but not worth reading in detail

- Translation

- Code generation/bug fixing. I don't use it this way but other s will tell you whether/how much their coding life improved this way

[cyanydeez]

It's kinda sad that Google _used to_ be capable of solving obscure problems.

[leblancfg]

I remember setting up my first Linux box ~20 years ago and distinctly not thinking that.

[cyanydeez]

2004? sure. 2010? doubtful. now, back to garbage