[devmor]

I should have specified that I am referring to their usage for experienced developers working on established projects.

I think that they have much more use for someone with no/little experience just trying to get proof of concepts/quick projects done because accuracy and adherence to standards don't really matter there.

(That being said, if Google were still as useful of a tool as it was in its prime, I think you'd have just as much success by searching for your questions and finding the answers on forums, stackexchange, etc.)

[quantdev1]

Thanks for clarifying, and great points.

I could see how it would be dangerous in large-scale production environments.

[devmor]

Not just dangerous, but much less useful in general! Once you are making changes to a large piece of software, the context of your problem grows exponentially and you can provide less and less as summary to the LLM. Of course "prompt engineering" is the art of distilling this context down as accurately as possible, but it becomes a diminishing return in all but the most perfectly architectured, functional solutions where problems are encapsulated.