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Is it not more akin to asking a handyman to go and do the work for you? They are the ones wielding the hammer, youve just sent them off to go and do it on your

Is it not more akin to asking a handyman to go and do the work for you? They are the ones wielding the hammer, youve just sent them off to go and do it on your behalf without getting your hands dirty. If you then claim to take credit for it, I can see how that might be misinterpreted. As I see said quite often, an LLM is deemed of a similar ability to a junior software engineer. If I were that junior and my work was repeatedly ripped off by my senior colleague, I would be pissed. Not that an LLM cares in this instance, but the original requester might want to know

jurgenburgen 2mo ago
> Is it not more akin to asking a handyman to go and do the work for you? Does your handyman go off the rails and build pipes around the neighbors house because they didn’t know you already have an incoming water pipe? Does your handyman require you to have expertise in plumbing to make sure they don’t use bubble gum to seal the pipes? It’s not taking credit if the “handyman” is a gibbering idiot who needs more handholding than a child.
- marliechiller 2mo ago
  That seems like an extreme interpretation if I'm honest. As ever, its more likely somewhere in between your hammer analogy and the handyman. In any case, there is almost zero downside to listing your sources when answering a question as it provides the person asking the question with more context as to the origin of the answer
  - jurgenburgen 2mo ago
    If you provide sources, provide the sources the LLM found for you after checking them yourself. Otherwise the recipient will have to vet them. Slight rant: I’ve started to get a bit fed up with people antrhopomorphizing these things, it’s unhealthy. It’s definitely not a handyman and it really is just a tool. I know they’re designed to seem conscious and that just makes them dangerous to use. If my colleague starts treating his hammer as a person, it’s definitely not normal.

jurgenburgen 2mo ago

> Is it not more akin to asking a handyman to go and do the work for you? Does your handyman go off the rails and build pipes around the neighbors house because they didn’t know you already have an incoming water pipe? Does your handyman require you to have expertise in plumbing to make sure they don’t use bubble gum to seal the pipes? It’s not taking credit if the “handyman” is a gibbering idiot who needs more handholding than a child.

marliechiller 2mo ago
That seems like an extreme interpretation if I'm honest. As ever, its more likely somewhere in between your hammer analogy and the handyman. In any case, there is almost zero downside to listing your sources when answering a question as it provides the person asking the question with more context as to the origin of the answer
- jurgenburgen 2mo ago
  If you provide sources, provide the sources the LLM found for you after checking them yourself. Otherwise the recipient will have to vet them. Slight rant: I’ve started to get a bit fed up with people antrhopomorphizing these things, it’s unhealthy. It’s definitely not a handyman and it really is just a tool. I know they’re designed to seem conscious and that just makes them dangerous to use. If my colleague starts treating his hammer as a person, it’s definitely not normal.