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This is actually where I get the biggest benefits from AI. It's not really good at making those connections itself. But it is good at fuzzy searching. By that I
by godelski 1y ago
This is actually where I get the biggest benefits from AI. It's not really good at making those connections itself. But it is good at fuzzy searching. By that I mean I can describe things but not know the name or proper terms for that. So I describe to an LLM, it can figure that out, and then I go off and search for depth and nuance (don't use the LLM for that...). This is something that traditional search is really bad at. But LLMs are also really bad at traditional search.
I'm not sure why we aren't trying to make this more complementary. I really don't want my LLM to be direct search just as I don't want my direct search to be an LLM. Frankly, the context of what I'm looking for matters. Don't make it an end-to-end thing. Just give me a fucking toggle switch for direct search or fuzzy search (hell, throw in an "I don't know" and make it the default)
I'm not worried about the AI replacing me here because the "superpower" (and I assume the gp's) here isn't having broad awareness. It is the ability to abstract and connect seemingly unconnected things. Once the AI is there, it's going to have already been able to replace a lot more stuff. The "superpower" is creativity combined with broad knowledge-base. LLMs seem more complementary here than replacing.