It is very useful but there's definitely a constant issue with quality-of-results, but I've found a pretty good workflow, involving jumping back and forth between search engine results and ChatGPT results.
Fundamentally, it's:
1) Ask ChatGPT a series of questions, going from the general down to the more specific. For example, 'Give me a list of options for setting up a headless Raspberry Pi as a Nginx server from scratch using only command line tools'. ChatGPT will produce a decent list of options.
2) Run that list of options in truncated form, just the keywords, through Google or other search engine that allows for a 'verbatim' search. Set to 50 or more results per page to get a decent spread of results at a glance. Get the more specific information for various options.
3) Run that more narrowed information back through ChatGPT to see what it produces. At this point you might be pretty close to the correct specific information you need, but generally I run it through search again just to be sure.
For example, this way I was able to quickly discover my headless RPi setup with the latest Raspberry Pi OS wasn't allowing me to ssh into it over wireless because the RPi engineers did away with default user/password settings for security reasons, so I had to manually include the 'userconf.txt' file in the boot directory on the SD card. Also it was very helpful with what needed to go into the wpa_supplicant.conf file.
Trying to find stuff like that out by search alone, in the past, would have probably taken at least 10X as long.
I wouldn't ever blindly trust what it suggests, however.
Fundamentally, it's:
1) Ask ChatGPT a series of questions, going from the general down to the more specific. For example, 'Give me a list of options for setting up a headless Raspberry Pi as a Nginx server from scratch using only command line tools'. ChatGPT will produce a decent list of options.
2) Run that list of options in truncated form, just the keywords, through Google or other search engine that allows for a 'verbatim' search. Set to 50 or more results per page to get a decent spread of results at a glance. Get the more specific information for various options.
3) Run that more narrowed information back through ChatGPT to see what it produces. At this point you might be pretty close to the correct specific information you need, but generally I run it through search again just to be sure.
For example, this way I was able to quickly discover my headless RPi setup with the latest Raspberry Pi OS wasn't allowing me to ssh into it over wireless because the RPi engineers did away with default user/password settings for security reasons, so I had to manually include the 'userconf.txt' file in the boot directory on the SD card. Also it was very helpful with what needed to go into the wpa_supplicant.conf file.
Trying to find stuff like that out by search alone, in the past, would have probably taken at least 10X as long.
I wouldn't ever blindly trust what it suggests, however.