[4dregress]

As a Jetbrains AI user I think it’s great.

I don’t ever use the code completion functionality in fact it can be a bit annoying. However asking it questions is the new Google search.

Over the last couple of years I’ve noticed that the quality of answers you get from googling has steeply declined, with most results now being terrible ad filled blog spam.

Asking the AI assistant the same query yields so much better answers and gives you the opportunity to delve deeper into said answer if you want to.

No more asking on stack overflow and having to wait for the inevitable snarky response.

It’s the best money I’ve spent on software in years. I feel like Picard asking the computer questions

[sota_pop]

I’m actually surprised this isn’t talked about more… it has been great interrogating the docs of unfamiliar frameworks (and giving me good references on where to go in the actual docs for more info). A better mouse trap to “Google-like search” has been my exact experience as well. I once scoffed at a blog article by an “ai communicator” (right around a year ago) entitled something like “chatgpt vs google search, what’s the difference?” I have also found myself using chatgpt as a Google search because the results of actually searching Google have been so unsatisfactory (even after I found myself appending “reddit” as the suffix to every google search for the better part of 2 years). I can’t tell whether this says more about the AI or Google.

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> I’ve noticed that the quality of answers you get from googling has steeply declined

Are you asking for solutions to a specific problem or searching for information on the problem? I still don't have issue with search engines, because I mostly use it for the latter, treating it as an index of the internet (which is what they really are). And for that AI is a huge step down, because I can't rely on the truthfulness of their replies.