Comment by nijave

>You could achieve precisely the same outcome by using search engines and normal research

When it comes to software engineering (as a software engineer myself), the AI is generally a lot quicker than me researching "the old fashion way"

I can fumble around and say "list free software that does X" without knowing I'm looking for, say, a CRM and then spend a couple minutes looking over the results when the "manual" method I would have spent 10-30 minutes just figuring out I was looking for "CRMs"

I like to think of these as sort of "psuedo NP hard" or questions that are slow to answer but quick to validate