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Yes, for non-work things I find it vaguely useful. My workflow is to first google search, often see Stack Overflow answers, and then move on to an LLM or actual

Yes, for non-work things I find it vaguely useful. My workflow is to first google search, often see Stack Overflow answers, and then move on to an LLM or actual documentation if I don't get anything through search. I do it this way around because I can search far faster than I can write out reasonable english sentences that head-off bad LLM responses. Sometimes when I'm confident enough that the LLM will be able to give me the "right answer" faster than search I'll do it first, but that's mostly when I have something I can copy/paste in.

recroad 2y ago
My experience with LLMs has been different. I give it trash prompts and it gives me reasonable responses. I think it's figured out the space between what I type and what I want. That's great. Until we get an input which allows it to figure out the space between what I type and what I think. That doesn't even sound too bad, because now I can just think and it'll happen. I look forward to this future, sounds wonderfully efficient, which would finally give me the time to do that thing I really want to do but don't have the time right now because we're not efficient enough. But no, my experience is different with regards to the ratio of quality of input versus output. I think we all do a subconscious ROI of whether typing that little extra will yield an output that's going to be that much better that it was worth the time and effort. Or much more likely I'm just lazy.
- magicalhippo 2y ago
  If I know what I want, just not exactly where, I'll go straight for a search. But if it's more fuzzy then LLMs has totally changed how I acquire knowledge. Now I find it more productive to ask an LLM to get some keywords or similar which I might search for afterwards. The great thing about LLMs is that, unlike a search engine, you can tell it "no, not quite like that, more like this" to guide it.
  - scarface_74 2y ago
    Then why not just tell the LLM to do the search for you? ChatGPT has had built in web search for over two yeass for paid users
    - magicalhippo 2y ago
      Mostly because I'm not a paying user. I use local LLMs for easier stuff, so not often I need to reach to ChatGPT. Besides, I guess I want to have some control over the search, like which sites to visit. Sometimes the search might retur something tangential, but interesting for example.

recroad 2y ago

My experience with LLMs has been different. I give it trash prompts and it gives me reasonable responses. I think it's figured out the space between what I type and what I want. That's great. Until we get an input which allows it to figure out the space between what I type and what I think. That doesn't even sound too bad, because now I can just think and it'll happen. I look forward to this future, sounds wonderfully efficient, which would finally give me the time to do that thing I really want to do but don't have the time right now because we're not efficient enough. But no, my experience is different with regards to the ratio of quality of input versus output. I think we all do a subconscious ROI of whether typing that little extra will yield an output that's going to be that much better that it was worth the time and effort. Or much more likely I'm just lazy.

magicalhippo 2y ago
If I know what I want, just not exactly where, I'll go straight for a search. But if it's more fuzzy then LLMs has totally changed how I acquire knowledge. Now I find it more productive to ask an LLM to get some keywords or similar which I might search for afterwards. The great thing about LLMs is that, unlike a search engine, you can tell it "no, not quite like that, more like this" to guide it.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  Then why not just tell the LLM to do the search for you? ChatGPT has had built in web search for over two yeass for paid users
  - magicalhippo 2y ago
    Mostly because I'm not a paying user. I use local LLMs for easier stuff, so not often I need to reach to ChatGPT. Besides, I guess I want to have some control over the search, like which sites to visit. Sometimes the search might retur something tangential, but interesting for example.