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Has that helped you? whenever I'm trying to find a niche problem I come across it and it tends to just reiterate the same information I already knew in a more roundabout way. Maybe I'm biased because clicking on links that don't solve my problem tend to make me more pessimistic, but it feels to me like those sites that used to just be keyword packed lists of links to get themselves higher in the search results.
There were a couple times it helped me figure out something I was struggling with if I remember. Either that or I mixed it up with something else entirely. I think it was either when I was learning to use Quickshell to make widgets, or it was something with NixOS. For Nix it wouldn't surprise me since the documentation lives in ten different places.
The more I used it, the more I realized that it actually wasn't that good. Realizing that it was AI made my experience make more sense. Since there's an element of randomness to AI output, once in a while it actually does a decent job just by chance. The more you use it, the more you realize that the average is much worse than those few lucky times. I guess I got lucky with the first couple pages I read.