LLM also does not bully you for asking. Nor it says "duplicated question" for non duplicated questions... There's a reason people prefer LLM to SO nowadays.

It's not panacea. But it's not the doom world destroying useless machine that some people like to tell it is.

It's a useful tool for some task if you know how to use it. Everyone who actively use it is because we have find put that it works for us better than other tools for that task, of not we would not use it.

Giving my own personal experience, I tend to ask first to an LLM rather that what I used to do digging in old SO answers because I get the answer quicker and a lot of the times just better. It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it serves me a purpose.

For instance last week I needed a PowerShell command to open an app compatibility menu from the command line. I asked and got this as a response:

(New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application).Namespace((Split-Path "C:\Ruta\A\TuPrograma.exe")).ParseName((Split-Path "C:\Ruta\A\TuPrograma.exe" -Leaf)).InvokeVerb("P&roperties")

Worked at first try, exactly as I wanted.

You are free to try a search engine with the query "PowerShell command to open an app compatibility menu from the command line" and check for yourself how little help the firsts results get you.

It's a tool, as many others. The magic lies in knowing when and how to use it. For other things I may not use it, but after a couple of years using it I'm developing a good sense of which questions does it handle well and which questions is better not even to try.