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by dinosaurdynasty 540 days ago
> choose a political candidate

I actually found 4o+search to be really good at this... Admittedly what I did was more "research these candidates, tell me anything newsworthy, pros/cons, etc" (much longer prompt) and well, it was way faster/patient at finding sources than I ever would've been, telling me things I never would've figured out with <5 minutes of googling each set of candidates (which is what I've done before).

Honestly my big rule for what LLMs are good at is stuff like "hard/tedious/annoying to do, easy to verify" and maybe a little more than that. (I think after using a model for a while you can get a "feel" for when it's likely BSing.)