I had a debate recently with a colleague who is very skeptical of LLMs for every day work. Why not lean in on searching Google and cross referencing answers, like we've done for ages? And that's fine.

But my counterargument is that what I find to be so powerful about the LLMs is the ability to refine my question, narrow in on a tangent and then pull back out, etc. And *then* I can take its final outcome and cross reference it. With the old way of doing things, I often felt like I was stumbling in the dark trying to find the right search string. Instead I can use the LLM to do the heavy lifting for me in that regard.