> I don’t understand why I’d want to pay for information that’s less reliable. It's faster. Much faster in a lot of cases. Think of ChatGPT not as a precisio

> I don’t understand why I’d want to pay for information that’s less reliable. It's faster. Much faster in a lot of cases. Think of ChatGPT not as a precision source of answers, but rather a universal clue generator. Yes, ChatGPT frequently (perhaps even usually) produces subtly defective answers. Most of the code it generates won't interpret, compile, etc. without errors, frequently exhibiting simple minded mistakes. That doesn't make the output useless. Indeed, it is a great time saver. That may seem counterintuitive, but I assure you it holds. I had to write some Perl today. I end up dealing with that about once a year. I have a deep understanding of the language (going back to serious use in the 90's,) but it's been 20+ years since I dealt with it frequently enough to achieve any sort of "flow." ChatGPT and its imperfect answers were extremely helpful in getting through this efficiently. If I had to guess I was 3-4x faster than same exercise using convention search engines. Google, now more then ever, feels like a ghetto. Useful results from Google are always buried among low quality bait that takes time to wade through, sorting wheat from chaff. ChatGPT obviates that nonsense, producing distraction free, ad free results. Also, Google isn't some fount of truth; lots of wrong stuff makes it to the top of Google.