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By far their most useful and reliable feature is asking them for stuff I already know, but can't be bothered to look up the details for or write out myself. It
by DrSiemer 3y ago
By far their most useful and reliable feature is asking them for stuff I already know, but can't be bothered to look up the details for or write out myself. It saves me from dealing with thick layers of SEO crap, cookie banners and many of the incorrect answers.
Sure, it would be nice if we had an LLM that could help us with the more unusual questions. But for that we would either need much better training data, full of all those unknown answers (which does not exist), or a totally different system that can actually think for itself instead of just mimicking existing human output.
- awfulneutral 3y agoThat's interesting, you mean something you forgot but could verify when you see the answer? Or something you know, but you need a write-up for it or something?
- DrSiemer 3y agoMany of the work I do involves things I have done before in some form. But all that knowledge is spread out over multiple languages and libraries and the details are often hazy. LLM's are excellent at stuff that has been done before and they are also fantastic for transposing code from one language to the other. Looking up code in old projects takes time and brain RAM. Spelling out the steps in pseudo code and then prompt guiding an LLM through figuring out the required code often works great for smaller tasks. I've also learned many new tricks by just asking it why it made certain choices.
- awfulneutral 3y agoI see, thanks for the explanation!