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One caveat is that many existing search engines are actively worse than what they had before.

Exact keyword matching had its use, but now they do some kind of vector search but without the text understanding of LLMs. Making anything more complex impossible to find without actually going to an LLM that understands what I'm actually going for and can help out.

Just recently I wanted to find out the mill build tool's special syntax to have the JVM version used for the build tool itself be the system version (on nixos, downloading a JVM won't work, but I can trivially pin a jdk version myself. Unfortunately mill will refuse to even start without this special line).

My Google/kagi fu absolutely failed, yet Claude managed to find me the exact syntax in a single prompt. (Do give it a try if you want to)