I do use it primarily as a search engine. Before ChatGPT I had to manually investigate and read through multiple pages of potentially irrelevant stuff to find

I do use it primarily as a search engine. Before ChatGPT I had to manually investigate and read through multiple pages of potentially irrelevant stuff to find an answer I could try to verify. If you find an answer on StackOverflow, you still need to integrate and verify it. Now I get an answer straight away just by asking a question, and can skip manual knowledge extraction step to get right on answer verification step (i.e. compiling, testing, extending). Even if ChatGPT is nothing else except a way to fuzzy search and summarize found results, even just that is already hugely helpful and has almost completely replaced Google for me.