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by theGeatZhopa 775 days ago
I do it the whole time with bing Copilot. Didn't visit Google to search for my daily questions like for several months. It feels so outdated to search for a proper result in old goog.

So actually, what Copilot does is to prefilter and condense results. If I like it and it seems legit, it's enough to get my answers. Sometimes I take up the source. Most of the times I reprompt Copilot to list me alternatives and find errors in them. That discloses erroneous things like contradictions enough.

But what's more useful is "how can I mix up two dictionaries with different keys one by one into a set."... 20 seconds later, I can read how and don't have to search SO for whole 20 minutes of reading.

But yes, it will impose the same changes as Google did. Before Google, you should know where you get the information needed or already have it in your hrad/learned. After Google, you don't have to. So everyone changed into stupid mode but being way more productive. So, I fear, that's the next wave of stupid:)