> Now you can not only ask, “how often do I do an oil change?” you can ask, “I have a 2022 Honda Pilot coming up on 30k miles. What services should I have done? This car has been sitting for the last 6 months because I’ve been overseas” and you get a custom search response tailored to what you want.

Search operators had already solved this problem before Google decided to start ignoring them. When I genuinely came up with nothing it was usually because I didn’t have the vocabulary to make the search in the first place; this is where LLMs really shine. I often resolve technical issues by just asking the LLM what to do and responding “Didn’t work,” until I get something more helpful. It feels like smacking the top of a TV to get better reception, and it doesn’t always work, but it works often enough that I find myself using my LLM of choice quite a bit more, and Google quite a bit less.

> smacking the top of a TV to get better reception

Ha! this is such a funny analogy.