At the very least, its a much more powerful google (dont nitpick my comparison, i realize it hallucinates). Getting the EXACT context of your question is something generalized search/articles online will NEVER give you, and you can read hundreds of pages of docs all day. This is good for certain things, but not when you want to know just a single setting or atomic piece of information. I want to get the smallest amount of accurate information very specifically to my problem, as I'm programming many hours per day on my own companies as a one man show.
My search history on chat gpt includes a few things as examples:
- specific ways SOLID principles could be applied to Go which is non-OOP language
- helping me quickly learn nuances of Lua for configuring neovim, specifically for weird syntax or things annoying to google (ie what does # mean) or what does a specific error mean within the context of the configuration
- more efficient top k algorithms than what I was building for learning purposes
- asking to break down big o complexity of certain types of sort functions and whether they differ from n log n
- helping me learn enough rust to do a bug fix Pr that was annoying me
- x vs s in neovim config for keymap modes
- figuring out why Ruby doesn’t implement descending ranges
Etc etc etc
