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Exactly, and in the business world, those using force multipliers outsmart and outwork their competitors. It's that simple. People are projecting all sorts of h
by jillesvangurp 1y ago
Exactly, and in the business world, those using force multipliers outsmart and outwork their competitors. It's that simple. People are projecting all sorts of hyperbole, morals, outrage, panic, fear, and other nonsense onto LLMs. But in the end they are tools that are available at extremely low cost that do vaguely useful things if you manage to prompt them right. Which isn't all that hard with a little practice.
I've been doing that for a few years now, I understand the limitations and strengths. I'm a programmer that also does marketing and sales when needed. LLMs have made the former a lot less tedious and the latter a lot easier. There are still things I have to do manually. But there are also whole categories of things that LLMs do for me quickly, reliably, and efficiently.
The impact on big companies is that the strategy of hiring large amounts of people and getting them to do vaguely useful things by prompting them right at great expense is now being challenged by companies doing the same things with a lot less people (see what I did there). LLMs eliminate all the tedious stuff in companies. A lot of admin and legal stuff. Some low level communication work (answering support emails, writing press releases, etc). There's a lot of stuff that companies do or have to do that is not really their core business but just stuff that needs doing. If you run a small startup, that stuff consumes a lot of your time. I speak from experience. Guess what I use LLMs for? All of it. As much as I can. Because that means more quality time with our actual core product. Things are still tedious. But I get through more of it quicker.