[throwacct]

This. I use LLMs for some tasks, but for more complex issues, I do it myself. I tried to use it for a project by defining each task as clearly as possible, and I spent weeks trying to come up with something useful. Mind you, I achieved 80% of what I wanted after iterating and "telling" the chat that their answers were wrong, and going over the code to double-check if everything was okay. Now I use it for specific, simple tasks if these are work-related, and then use it for random kinds of stuff that I can verify by going to the actual source.

[bluefirebrand]

> Mind you, I achieved 80% of what I wanted after iterating and "telling" the chat that their answers were wrong, and going over the code to double-check if everything was okay

I very often read things like this, and I'm surprised how often the person estimates "around 80%" of the work was good. It feels so perfectly tailored to the Pareto Principal

The LLM does the easy 80% (which we usually say takes 20% of the time anyways). Then the human has to go do the harder remaining 20%, only with a much smaller mental model of how the original 80% is fitting together