As someone who daily drives ChatGPT for a lot of stuff, I agree. I heard someone put it this way “AI is perfect for stuff that is hard to find but easy to verify”.

The other day I took a photo of my liquor cabinet and told it to make a cocktail recipe with ingredients on hand. Or if I encounter an error on my PC I’ll just describe the problem. Or for movie recommendations when I have a very specific set of conditions. Or trying to remember a show from my childhood with only a vague set of memories. The list goes on.

Particularly for anything coding. If I’m trying to learn something I always learn best when I can just see an example of the thing in action as documentation is not always great. Or if I’m doing data manipulation and I have the input and output and just need the function to convert one to the other. I recently saved a whole afternoon of effort with that one. Or spec tests I’ll just drop my whole code file in and ask it for full coverage.

These are all things that traditional search engines are poor or incapable of. I’d have a hard time going back if they just turned all this off tomorrow.

I think there’s a lack of education around how to use AI which is actually a problem. Like you shouldn’t be using it to identify if a mushroom is safe to eat. You shouldn’t be using really for anything food or health related for that matter. You should ask it for its sources when you are unsure of its answers.