Basically I described the problem I am trying to solve; I ask it to behave as a seasoned professor of comp sci or w/e depending on my hunch, we go back and forth where I ask questions, add constraints to the system, and in turn it gives me ideas into what I should look into more.

It's the Socratic method on steroids, where the student is probing a possibly fallible professor with the library of Alexandria at their hands.

It is by no means perfect, but it allows me to identify what general field I am going into, what I should read about it, what core concepts are important, how to expand my knowledge, and most importantly, helps me better formulate the problem by asking questions or failing to understand what I want to convey.