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Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM

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first seen Jul 11, 2026 · last seen Jul 16, 2026 · published Jul 11, 2026

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2026-07-12
"Just ask ChatGPT" is this year's "just Google it" — except Google was a search engine and ChatGPT is a guess engine with a confident voice. The real skill isn't prompting better. It's knowing when the problem needs a lookup table, not a language model.