[delichon]

To a friend or colleague, yes. But for quotidian business transactions LLMs are such a shortcut. I pointed one to three Amazon orders that I wanted to return with reasons for each, and asked it to look up the details and generate warranty service request emails for each. A quick review copy paste send, boom done. A 15 minute task done in 5. Repeat and it adds up. But you need to know when not to take the shortcut.

On a good day it's a 240 volt hair clipper for grooming yaks.

[pavel_lishin]

I think the difference there is that a warranty email isn't aimed at a person, but a company - which, I think cstross has pointed out, was humanity's first AI.

[majormajor]

Last time I returned anything to amazon it was a two-minute-or-less task that didn't involve anything like a warranty service request email?

[delichon]

I buy sous vide cookers that die in about 3 months (all brands I've found do when run 24x7). That's outside of the normal return window and requires a warranty claim to get a replacement. For that you go through the maker, not Amazon. This basically doubles the useful life of the purchase, but I'd rather find one that lasts.

[emodendroket]

I mean, yeah, I consider myself a decent writer, but I don't think that skill was best or more meaningfully expressed in writing Jira tickets so I'm pretty happy to outsource that.