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Comment by rose_ann_

2 years ago

No. It solved it by (most of the time) giving the OP and I the answer to our queries, without us needing to wade through spammy SERP links.

If LLMs can replace 90% of your queries, then you have very different search patterns from me. When I search on Kagi, much of the time I’m looking for the website of a business, a public figure’s social media page, a restaurant’s hours of operation, a software library’s official documentation, etc.

LLMs have been very useful, but regular search is still a big part of everyday life for me.

  • Sure we now have options, but before LLMs, most queries relied solely on search engines, often leading to sifting through multiple paragraphs on websites to find answers — a barrier for most users.

    Today, LLMs excel in providing concise responses, addressing simple, curious questions like, "Do all bees live in colonies?"

How do you tell a plausible wrong answer from a real one?

  • By testing the code it returns (I mostly use it as a coding assistant) to see if it works. 95% of the time it does.

    For technical questions, ChatGPT has almost completely replaced Google & Stack Overflow for me.

    • In my experience, testing code in a way that ensures that it works is often harder and takes more time than writing it.