The Tool For the Job

I have noticed an interesting phenomenon with LLMs. There is something I have never quite understood. From what I have gathered from people talking about LLMs in comments, and blog posts, and chat rooms, and Youtube videos, etc. One of the most common uses for them is looking up information. And I don’t get it. I do try to avoid using LLMs where I can, but this particular case is not aversion or resistance for me. It is categorization. I simply that I don’t associate them with finding information. When I want to look something up, I go to Wikipedia , or Youtube . I go to a search engine and look for blogs and forums. LLMs aren’t even in the list of things that I think about for learning. I am a little mystified by how they got onto that list for so many other people. There are many tools for this task already. Those tools can certainly be improved on—who has anything good to say about search engines in 2026? But for me, LLMs do not seem tool-shaped. I suspect this may be a bigger…