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Exactly. An LLM is not a conventional search engine and shouldn't be prompted as if it were one. The difference between "Rust crate to access Postgres with Arrow support" and "What would a hypothetical Rust crate to access Postgres with Arrow support look like?" isn't that profound from the perspective of a language model. You'll get an answer, but it's entirely possible that you'll get the answer to a question that isn't the one you thought you were asking.

Some people aren't very good at using tools. You can usually identify them without much difficulty, because they're the ones blaming the tools.



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