Depending on the material, the LLM can be faster. I have used an LLM to extract viable search terms to then go and read the material myself.
I never trust the summary, but it frequently gives me clues as to what keywords could take me to the right area of a source material. Internet articles that stretch brief content into tedious mess, documentation that is 99% something I already know, but I need something buried in the 1%.
Was searching for a certain type of utility and traditional Internet searches were flooded with shitware that wasn’t meeting the criteria I wanted, LLM successfully zeroed in on just the perfect GitHub project.
Then as a reminder to never trust the results, I queried how to make it do a certain thing and it mentioned a command option that seemed like a dumb name that was opposite of what I asked for if it did work and not only would it have been opposite, no such option existed.
My work is technically dense and I read all day.
It’s sometimes nice when I’m mentally exhausted to see if it’s worth the effort to dig deeper in a 10 second upload. That’s all I’m getting at.
I use it to summarize stuff sometimes, and I honestly spend almost as much time checking it’s accurate than I would if I had just read and summarized.
It is useful for ‘What does this contain?’ so I can see if I need to read something. Or rewording something I have made a pig’s ear out of.
I wouldn’t trust it for anything important.
The most important thing to do if you do use AI is to not ask leading questions. Keep them simple and direct
Skimming and scanning texts is a skill that achieves the same goal more quickly than using an unreliable bullshit generator.
Depending on the material, the LLM can be faster. I have used an LLM to extract viable search terms to then go and read the material myself.
I never trust the summary, but it frequently gives me clues as to what keywords could take me to the right area of a source material. Internet articles that stretch brief content into tedious mess, documentation that is 99% something I already know, but I need something buried in the 1%.
Was searching for a certain type of utility and traditional Internet searches were flooded with shitware that wasn’t meeting the criteria I wanted, LLM successfully zeroed in on just the perfect GitHub project.
Then as a reminder to never trust the results, I queried how to make it do a certain thing and it mentioned a command option that seemed like a dumb name that was opposite of what I asked for if it did work and not only would it have been opposite, no such option existed.
Lol. Your advice: learn to read, noob
My work is technically dense and I read all day. It’s sometimes nice when I’m mentally exhausted to see if it’s worth the effort to dig deeper in a 10 second upload. That’s all I’m getting at.