The "AI" are useful for one thing. I had no idea what functions to use to scan a directory in a native C++ Windows application. Nor that they introduced an abstraction in C++ 2017?. They all work the same (needless fs access should be avoided no matter the OS) but it did give me the names*.

Stuff that google search from 10 years ago would have done without pretending it's "AI". But not google search from this year.

* it wasn't able to simply list the fields of the returned structure that contained a directory entry. But since it gave me the name, i was able to look it up via plain search.

Yeah I find myself doing that too, use the AI to generate a bunch of names I can put into google to find a good answer. I also think if google hadn't gotten as sh*t as it has AI wouldn't be nearly as useful to most people.