I can find lots of uses cases for LLMs that are personally compelling but they aren't empirical, or leading anywhere commercial. Rather, they are phenomenologic

I can find lots of uses cases for LLMs that are personally compelling but they aren't empirical, or leading anywhere commercial. Rather, they are phenomenological n-of-1 art experiments. That's given me an entry into worlds I don't understand like poetry and comedy. My favorite thing about working with LLMs is that I can go for hours with wild experiments in a way that is very close to my early childhood basement lab experiments with biology, chemistry, and later, computers, and music. It's fun! To me, anything that benefits from pairs work, which is everything from the art of computer programming to literate programming to research to sensemaking, things that give rise to reflection or the need for a feedback loop like design. There's learning in working with a partner who's never quite right the first time, just like me. And so we riff back and forth and I get to decide when we're done. Sometimes that's a couple riffs, sometimes it goes on for hours. It's absorbing in a good way - a way that I thought was lost from computing when everything became commercial and social. If I didn't know better, I'd think the ghost in the machine was Alan Kay or Bret Victor. To have found a partner in my aimless pairing exercises has been the best discovery I've made in a decade. Here's a satirical example of one of my recent art experiments. I was surprised since I had no expectations. YMMV. https://davidwatson.org/write/walt_whitman_agile_poet.html https://davidwatson.org/write/walt_whitman_agile_poet.html I've got dozens of others laying around, but not enough time to publish them all. Obviously, LLM is not going to make me into an artist. I'm just enjoying spending time with emergent art grown by human-computer partners. For someone like me whose default mode is definitely divergent, it's fun to have a responsive computer program that has the same kind of responsive cadence or volley I expect from one of my musician friends trading fours.