| Well, if you tell me that many people are using LLMs poorly, and in a way that won't benefit them or their team in the long term, then I wouldn't be too surprised. There are probably more ways to use them poorly than ways to use them well. And AI companies are pushing usage patterns that may make you dependent on them. --- But I mention 4 ways that LLMs helped me recently here https://lobste.rs/s/zxppfh/all_cool_kids_are_doing_it#c_xfnz... i.e. VimScript, SQL, login shells, Linux container syscalls -- with some results you can see I mention that "give me your best argument against X" is a good prompt -- they can do that And I also don't use them to edit code for me (right now) -- I type the code myself, TEST it, and internalize it So for those cases, and many others, they are "spreading knowledge" to me, simply because I can directly query them without reading the manual (or suffering through slow web pages with ads on them) The end game might be ads, which is depressing. But actually it's remarkable that you can run high quality models locally, whereas you could have NEVER run Google locally. I use LLMs as a better Google, as a sophisticated text calculator. But they are significantly more than that too I have definitely run into cases where LLMs slow me down, but I now avoid those usage patterns |