> "I’ve even gotten it to walk me through things like installing WSL 2 without using the Microsoft Store after I nuked all Appx packages."
That's a search engine query you can issue already today, without involving any LLMs. It will cost a fraction of the cost of running this with an LLM, and it'll actually bring you to the "source" of the information (a thread on StackOverflow with the full context - including "wrong answers" which are just as useful) - unlike an LLM.
I can also use a horse to ride to my parents and im still using a car?!
1. Cost: it's much easier to build and serve a traditional search index for questions/answers at scale
2. Speed
3. Quality: with search engines you don't just get one answer (you get a spectrum of answers). You have access to the "source" of those answers, which often include additional data that can help you choose the most appropriate solution to a problem.
In this specific case, the "horse" is the LLM - and the "car" is the traditional search engine with modern indexing technologies. But please, don't let simple textbook facts about technology take you off your trip.
But LLM can already do things Google can't.
LLM is not just a search engine.
It's an explainer, rubber duck etc.
Instead of 'google define x' I just say ' explain x' in my dialog with the machine.
And it will only become better and better.
Maybe my favorite was pasting in pages of documentation describing all of the error codes for a library (the docs are the only source of truth) and getting it to output a very good typescript enum.