More like when you Google and half the solutions you find contradict themselves, with some of the responses to the solutions discussing the dangers.
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But have you tried askjeeves?
What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?
True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…
Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It's obnoxious.
It's surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it's a great general purpose search engine.
Worse. "Hey I have your problem ... ... nevermind I figured it out"
True story. x3
Or when you're having a problem with a piece of accounting software that nobody has ever had, so you call in for phone support, and they've never had it, but they can reproduce it on their side, find a solution, and thank you very much for letting them know.