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ljs

I think the key win with LLMs (I've spoken enough about negatives :) is how it interacts with you AS A HUMAN.

- Got a fuzzy vague query? No problem.

- Got an issue with the thing you're working on that's just VERY PAINFUL to deal with? The LLM feels no pain, it'll get you over that 'ugh god no' bump.

- Have a problem you want to solve while you're off dealing with something else life-related? Kick it off in the background.

It also combines that with being a computer, so when it does a task, it CAN be inhumanly good at it if it's not creative (from my work, or what was my work anyway, I think of kernel splats).

It's these kinds of things, not the magical claims the press makes about them, that make them so powerful.

In the end people will figure this out (and ARE figuring it out, I mean it took me a while and I see others drawing similar conclusions).

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haoli

Hao Li

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@ljs Yeah exactly, it can help me make a whole PPT in a few minutes on something I'm not even that familiar with, write all the speaker notes too, and then I basically just stand there and read
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ljs@mastodonapp.uk

ljs

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@haoli yeah that kind of thing definitely a strength!

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