I think most people are buying into the hype because search for information has just become baaaaad due to uuuhm ... incentives and the current crop of LLM prov

I think most people are buying into the hype because search for information has just become baaaaad due to uuuhm ... incentives and the current crop of LLM provides a good view into all information available (also behind paywalls...) on the internet in any language. That way it works great if you want to solve programming problem X for which there is a library and it also works if you want to know which companies built bicycles in Poland pre-1990. It also was very confident in answering what happened to the factories. Just that some of the factories didn't exist and some of the new companies it mentioned came very close to what google search would return... (aka unrelated advertisement)