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by zippyman55 496 days ago
I found it really useful for debugging errors. Missing an argument in a graphics call was always an easy fix. As I could rerun my code immediately and get feedback. I’d also use it for “give me a strawman document for …” and I’d then do the hard work by hand to fill it in. I never trusted text output but always worked over significantly. One thing I really enjoyed doing: I had to listen to a three hour presentation on IT governance. I captured the audio, converted to text, and then had copilot or gpt summarize and put together an outline. The audio was really not organized and there was no way I’d make it thru three hrs of note taking. I still spent some time going over the summary and filled in my content. I have a homeless friend who got an unfair parking ticket. I wrote up a short note and used a LLM to grind down the city’s parking enforcement to get the fee dismissed. So it’s good for responding to dumb organizational requests. I see a lot of people passing off auto generated work and it so often shows. To me it signals they are not to serious about what they are doing. I do find if I use it, I can quickly do things mindlessly and not fully understand what I did. I need to balance that as I like to do the work and stretch my brain and sometimes that does not happen.