Yeah this is the big benefit of current LLM AI even with the mistakes and hallucinations IMO. All the things that are hard to answer but easy to verify.

Not just programming. e.g. You have a complex medical problem. Hard to ask Google. Ask AI, it gives you some possible answers, then you can search up those. Or you want to identify a plant. AI looks at your photo and tells you what it is, then search that name to verify.

There were existing ways to do some of these things, but this covers all of them.