Stop Using Chatbots as Search. Use Them as a Thinking Partner.

I see people type search queries into ChatGPT and trust the answer. That's the wrong use.

For facts, a source-backed tool like Perplexity or Bing AI beats a closed model that guesses.

ChatGPT and Claude shine when you bring the context and ask them to reason, not recall.

The best prompt I have is here is what I know, what am I missing rather than tell me about X.

Use the bot for judgment, not memory. It's stronger at the first than the second.