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You are right, but doing all that is incredibly cumbersome, at least to some people, which is why they don’t like working with LLMs.
by layer8 2y ago
You are right, but doing all that is incredibly cumbersome, at least to some people, which is why they don’t like working with LLMs.
- simonw 2y agoThat was one of the themes of my article: LLMs are power-user tools, mis-sold as "easy to use". To get great results out of them you need to invest a whole lot of under-documented and under-appreciated effort. https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#llms-somehow-got-even-harder-to-use https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#llms-som...
- layer8 2y agoIt’s not just that you need to be a power user (I certainly am), you also need to be fine with nondeterminism and typing a lot of prose, instead of doing everything with keyboard shortcuts and CLI commands, with reproducible outcomes. It’s a different mode of operation and interaction, requiring a different predisposition to some degree.
- fragmede 2y agounless you can type faster than you can talk, (which some people can), stop typing and start dictating. aider has a /voice command for a reason. I don't use it exclusively, but damn does it help in the right places.
- eterps 2y agoCan you elaborate, or give some examples? I am having trouble imagining in which situations that would be useful because I tend to put a lot of thought into defining the right prompt before sending it over.
- madmask 2y agoExactly! I don’t like talking or writing or explaining. My mind generally uses language as little as possible, I have no inner monologue running in the background. Greatly prefer something deterministic to random bs popping up without the ability of recognizing it. I don’t like llms but sometimes use them as autocomplete or to generate words, like a template for a letter or boilerplate scripts, never for actual information (à la google).