I don't know if this is a common sentiment, but I like that I'm in a moment when, before I search, I ask myself where the best place to go for that knowledge is.

I still use DDG as my default search engine (I suspect I should be using Kagi). But more and more I'm just talking to ChatGPT via the iOS app and asking it to provide links for further reading.

It’s kind of funny, now when I have a programming question I find myself going straight to the documentation which is a better habit than searching anyway. By the time I would have combed through search results, blogs, and stack overflow to find a relevant answer, I might as well have just read a few pages in the docs and gotten a more complete knowledge of the topic.

I think of it as my personal journey to “RTFM”. I now understand why people are so strict about that. To be fair though, I haven’t really dabbled into alternative search engines much yet.