Search engines were also only good at looking up things, not software engineering. I find it a blessing that a human is still valuable in this process we call software engineering. And meanwhile you can use search engines just like LLMs to learn and discover much faster than without them.

Only nowadays LLMs are embedded in search engines so if you're looking for something that doesn't exist the top of the page is liable to hallucinate its existence.

I'm not sure I agree. This is coding for me, the engineering happened long before you knew you'd have to put a button-like thing there.

To me, it's a great example how LLMs are just as shit at coding as everything else. It's just that the majority of people using them to code don't look at how terrible it is as long as it runs.