• [deleted]@piefed.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

    Skimming and scanning texts is a skill that achieves the same goal more quickly than using an unreliable bullshit generator.

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      2 days ago

      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.

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      2 days ago

      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.