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Here's what LLMs are good for: * Taking care of boilerplate work for people who know what they are doing (somewhat unreliably) * Brainstorming ideas for peopl
by colechristensen 3y ago
Here's what LLMs are good for:
* Taking care of boilerplate work for people who know what they are doing (somewhat unreliably)
* Brainstorming ideas for people who know what they are doing
* Making people who don't quite know what they're doing look like they know what they're doing a little better (somewhat unreliably)
LLMs are like having an army of very knowledgable but somewhat senseless interns to do your bidding.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoSo, like minions in "Despicable Me"?
- TheAceOfHearts 3y agoThis basically matches my own experience. ChatGPT is amazing for brainstorming and coming up with crazy ideas / variations, which I can then use as a starting point and refine as needed. The other use-case is generating command line invocations with the correct flags without having to look up any reference documentation. Usually I can recognize that the flags seem correct, even if I wouldn't have been able to remember them from the top of my head.
- stcredzero 3y agoLLMs are like having an army of very knowledgable but somewhat senseless interns to do your bidding. I prefer to think of them as the underwear gnomes, just more widely read and better at BS-ing. What happens when everyone gets to have a tireless army of very knowledgeable and AVERAGE common sense interns who have brains directly wired to various software tools, working 24/7 at 5X the speed? In the hands of a highly motivated rogue organization, this could be quite dangerous. This is a bit beyond where we are now, but shouldn't we be prepared for this ahead of time?