[skydhash]

I think it's going to be personal. Because people define values in different ways, and the definition depends on the current context. I've used LLMs for things like shellscript, plotting with pyplot, explanations,... But always taking the output with a huge grain of salt. What I'm looking for is not the output itself, but the direction it can give me. But the only value is when I'm pressed for time and can't use a more objective and complete approach.

When you read the manual page for a program, or the documentation for a library, the things described always (99.99999...%) exist. So I can take it as objective truth. The description may be lacking, so I don't have a complete picture, but it's not pure fantasy. And if it turns out that it is, the solution is to drop it and turn back.

So when I act upon it, and the result comes back, I question my approach, not the information. And often I find the flaw quickly. It's slower initially, but the final result is something I have good confidence in.

[diggan]

> And often I find the flaw quickly. It's slower initially, but the final result is something I have good confidence in.

I guess what I'm looking for are people who don't have that experience, because you seem to be getting some value out of using LLMs at least, if I understand you correctly?

There are others out there who have tried the same approach, and countless of other approaches (self-declared at least) yet get 0 value from them, or negative value. These are the people I'm curious about :)