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by artyom 17 days ago
I guess it depends on your definition of "too much", but also on your definition of "thinking".

What I've found is that LLMs are excellent tools for:

- Spitting out white collar corporate speak that sounds plausible to other corporate speakers

- Hugely accelerating the process of going through academia which, except for a few specific cases, is essentially years of copy/pasting

- Writing code as long as such code as been written many times before

- Figuring out which one of the 10 ads and 12 misleading links in a web search is the one you're looking for

- Summarizing a book in ten paragraphs so you don't have to read it

...which turns out a lot of people defined as "thinking". I don't agree with that. But in either case, not "too much" is being offloaded: it's all of it.