[svara]

This is really strange to me...

Of course you don't trust the answer.

That doesn't mean you can't work with it.

One of the key use cases for me other than coding is as a much better search engine.

You can ask a really detailed and specific question that would be really hard to Google, and o3 or whatever high end model will know a lot about exactly this question.

It's up to you as a thinking human to decide what to do with that. You can use that as a starting point for in depth literature research, think through the arguments it makes from first principles, follow it up with Google searches for key terms it surfaces...

There's a whole class of searches I would never have done on Google because they would have taken half a day to do properly that you can do in fifteen minutes like this.

[dfedbeef]

Such as

[svara]

I went through my ChatGPT history to pick a few examples that I'm both comfortable sharing and that illustrate the use-case well:

> There are some classic supply chain challenges such as the bullwhip effect. How come modern supply chains seem so resilient? Such effects don't really seem to occur anymore, at least not in big volume products.

> When the US used nuclear weapons against Japan, did Japan know what it was? That is, did they understood the possibility in principle of a weapon based on a nuclear chain reaction?

> As of July 2025, equities have shown a remarkable resilience since the great financial crisis. Even COVID was only a temporary issue in equity prices. What are the main macroeconomic reasons behind this strength of equities.

> If I have two consecutive legs of my air trip booked on separate tickets, but it's the same airline (also answer this for same alliance), will they allow me to check my baggage to the final destination across the two tickets?

> what would be the primary naics code for the business with website at [redacted]

I probably wouldn't have bothered to search any of these on Google because it would just have been too tedious.

With the airline one, for example, the goal is to get a number of relevant links directly to various airline's official regulations, which o3 did successfully (along with some IATA regulations).

For something like the first or second, the goal is to surface the names of the relevant people / theories involved, so that you know where to dig if you wish.