Well for me, I enjoy pair programming my own projects with offline models. I also bounce ideas off it to attempt to ground myself in some type of reality (some models are better for this than others… probably has risk of delusions of grandeur. Some models will just verbally suck you off which is annoying).
I built ansible tooling for deploying k3s kubernetes and Ceph-backed Proxmox clusters and VMs and containers and services. Utilized the help of LLMs to structure my playbooks and figure out how roles work.
I love learning new things and LLMs have a lot to offer in that regard. You have to watch out for the bullshit and independently look at other sources as well, but it’s a great starting point and I can sometimes have sone deep conversations around some topics.
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Some people think you can use it as a replacement for therapy or to fight loneliness. Turns out, simply reading fiction is better.
neurosciencenews.com/reading-emapthy-loneliness-2…
Almacca@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
Cool article. Thanks for the link. As an older fellow, but a lifetime reader, mainly of sci-fi, I feel thankful that I’ve been doing something to offset the years of drug and alcohol abuse. :)
Recently, though, I went through and read the entire bibliography of Robert Rankin, which kind of broke my mind a bit - I DO NOT recommend it - and it’s taken me a year or so to feel like starting to read novels again. They’re wildly hilarious if you’re a fan of running gags and sheer insane premises, but I shouldn’t have taken them all at once.
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
It’s pretty cool how books are more than just fuel for imagination, no? But I second the idea of joining a book club, because not only do you get the cognitive effects of a book, but you get the social benefits of a club!