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by silentkat 55 days ago
The power of AI is it rewards due diligence.

The weakness of AI is that it is really easy to fall into lazy habits.

Something about having to talk to a machine like it's a human makes me fall for treating it like a human. I want to treat it as a probability engine that collapses to an answer based on input, but that input explicitly needs to be one that has it collapse to something a reasonably knowledgeable person would respond with, which more-or-less means talking to it like it is that kind of person.

I feel like it activates the social part of my brain and then I stop working with it properly. I'm still building the habit, though, only recently started taking the LLMs seriously as a tool.