Not knowing the terminology, Google was useless.
I ask chatgpt and it tells me how to mute notifications, I clarify "no the thing where you're typing and windows can't do it so it plays a sound" and chatgpt happily informed me on how to mute the windows hard stop sound.
For situations where you don't really know what you're looking for, chatgpt is already competitive with Google. Failing abysmally in some cases, and far surpassing Google in others.
I gave him the source string, the target string (spaces replaced by %20).
It told me it was called URL encoding and gave me the code to do it.
I'm sure most people who have messed with APIs long enough could have told you that, but it's an annoying thing to learn the first time if you don't have someone to talk to.
To me chatgpt is that over confident friend you can talk a problem through with, except they've used every language and library under the sun.
It's like speaking to someone who is an amateur at _everything_ but a little too confident.
Here's someone using it on the mint forums