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You’ve given two examples for “broad”, but none for “deep”. I’ve also used LLMs for setting up my homelab, and they were really helpful since I was basically at
by manmal 2y ago
You’ve given two examples for “broad”, but none for “deep”. I’ve also used LLMs for setting up my homelab, and they were really helpful since I was basically at beginner level in most linux admin topics (still am). But trying to eg setup automatic snapshot replications for my zfs pool had me go back to reading blog posts, as ChatGPT just couldn’t provide a solution that worked for me.
- Spivak 2y agoI think one of the catch-22s of LLMs is that using it as a fancy search index (which is the dev assistant use-case) is that the information it surfaces is hugely dependent on what words you use and it matches energy. If you don't know the words you'll get very beginner oriented content and you can get it to surface deeper knowledge iff you know the shibboleths, but it's annoying. One dumb trick that's been unreasonably useful is just copy-pasting barely-related source code, but at the level you're trying to understand and then just asking an unrelated question— just yank that search vector way over to the region where you think the good information lives.