> how good search engines were 10+ years ago

For me this is a huge boost in productivity. If I remember how I was working in the past (example of Google integration):

Before:

    * go through docs to understand how to start (quick start) and things to know
    * start boilerplate (e.g. install the scripts/libs)
    * figure out configs to enable in GCP console
    * integrate basic API and test
    * of course it fails, because its Google API, so difficult to work with
    * along the way figure out why Python lib is failing to install, oh version mismatch, ohh gcc not installed, ohh libffmpeg is required,...
    * somehow copy paste and integrate first basic API
    * prepare for production, ohhh production requires different type of Auth flow
    * deploy, redeploy, fix, deploy, redeploy
    * 3 days later -> finally hello world is working

    * Hey my LLM buddy, I want to integrate Google API, where do I start, come up with a plan
    * Enable things which requires manual intervention
    * In the meantime LLM integrates the code, install lib, asks me to approve installation of libpg, libffmpeg,....
    * test, if fails, feed the error back to LLM + prompt to fix it
    * deploy

This is what you'd use a search engine for 10 years ago.

The docs used to be good enough that there would be an example which did exactly what you needed more often than the llm gets it right today.