What’s the benefit of example code in a project if you have to change it all anyway? What’s the benefit of an article summary if you end up reading the article afterward? What’s the benefit of a college course that just teaches you how to learn on your own (i.e. most of them)?
LLMs are great for some things, terrible for others, just like any tool. Use them for what they’re good at (generating example code, getting an intro to a topic, etc) and not what they’re poor at (greenfield projects, hard questions, etc). As you use the tool more, you’ll get a feel for what it’s good at and what it’s not.
This is it. I remember 15 to 20 years ago there were people who were GOOD at using Google and people who were bad at it. The difference was knowing what the search engine was good at and how to ask it the right questions.
People who just went in blindly and clicked on the first link didn’t get what they needed out of it. Did that make it a bad tool? Probably not.
Using a LLM wrong is just as bad as using the wrong size wrench. Would a giant crescent wrench get a tiny nut off a bolt? Probably, but it would make more sense to use the right size one in the first place.
How did you get “redo” from “verifying sources”? Even if only 10% is good in any case (very rare but it is better at some subjects then others), that is still 10% you don’t have to do. What we currently have is also the worst it’s going to be.
Keep burying your head in the sand but you will just become the laughing stock of your office. You guys are aiming to become this decades “boomer that types with one finger”.
Just the amount of time I save when I ask it to build me tables I can drop into documents is worth it. It’s my information, I just don’t have to copy paste it one by one into excel. People that are anti-AI in professional contexts are actually nuts.
That happy middle ground is so effective, so sad to see people dismissing it as useless. Also sad that people use it for everything and believe it all the time.
Great example of a good use case was using it to spell check my thesis, asking it to explain why it was wrongly spelled and then using my own brain, think if it is correct. That way I am more sure I catch things that I may have missed (suprise, I missed a lot and got helped a lot). Yes 30% was plain wrong but I just ignored that.
How does it help productivity if you have to redo all of its work?
What’s the benefit of example code in a project if you have to change it all anyway? What’s the benefit of an article summary if you end up reading the article afterward? What’s the benefit of a college course that just teaches you how to learn on your own (i.e. most of them)?
LLMs are great for some things, terrible for others, just like any tool. Use them for what they’re good at (generating example code, getting an intro to a topic, etc) and not what they’re poor at (greenfield projects, hard questions, etc). As you use the tool more, you’ll get a feel for what it’s good at and what it’s not.
This is it. I remember 15 to 20 years ago there were people who were GOOD at using Google and people who were bad at it. The difference was knowing what the search engine was good at and how to ask it the right questions.
People who just went in blindly and clicked on the first link didn’t get what they needed out of it. Did that make it a bad tool? Probably not.
Using a LLM wrong is just as bad as using the wrong size wrench. Would a giant crescent wrench get a tiny nut off a bolt? Probably, but it would make more sense to use the right size one in the first place.
How did you get “redo” from “verifying sources”? Even if only 10% is good in any case (very rare but it is better at some subjects then others), that is still 10% you don’t have to do. What we currently have is also the worst it’s going to be.
Keep burying your head in the sand but you will just become the laughing stock of your office. You guys are aiming to become this decades “boomer that types with one finger”.
Just the amount of time I save when I ask it to build me tables I can drop into documents is worth it. It’s my information, I just don’t have to copy paste it one by one into excel. People that are anti-AI in professional contexts are actually nuts.
That happy middle ground is so effective, so sad to see people dismissing it as useless. Also sad that people use it for everything and believe it all the time.
Great example of a good use case was using it to spell check my thesis, asking it to explain why it was wrongly spelled and then using my own brain, think if it is correct. That way I am more sure I catch things that I may have missed (suprise, I missed a lot and got helped a lot). Yes 30% was plain wrong but I just ignored that.