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• Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, LLMs are interesting tech products to play with and find some niche uses for.

  But for the love of god they are not “prop up the entire stock market and numerous multi-trillion-dollar companies indefinitely” good!

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What is it useful for? I actually have a hard time finding a use for it… Its alright at book recommendations, sometimes.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I found it’s useful for code where I know like 70% of what I’m doing. More than that and I can just do it myself. Less than that and I can’t trust and diagnose the output.

    I’d rather have old fashioned stack overflow and tutorials, honestly. It’s hard to actually learn when it just gives answers.

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    • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I use it for coding advice sometimes, as an amateur hobbyist it’s really useful to point me in the right direction when facing problems I’m unfamiliar with. I often end up reinventing the proverbial wheel, just worse, but LLMs can help point out standards and best practices that I, as an outsider to the industry, am unaware of.

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      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You have to be careful at low skill/knowledge levels, because it’ll happily send you down a crazy path that looks legitimate.

        I asked it how to do something in oracle SQL, because I don’t know oracle specifically, and it gave me a terrible answer. I suspected it wasn’t right so I asked a coworker who’s an old hand at Oracle, and he was like “no that’s terrible. Here’s a much simpler way”

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    • Dalraz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I find it’s good at writing boilerplate and scaffolding code, the stuff I really hate doing.

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  • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Movie recommendations is my biggest thing, personally.

    And lots of other purposes. Just because a ton of people are misusing this tool and treating it like GAI doesn’t mean that it isn’t a useful tool. Even something as simple as proofreading a letter has massive utility for some people.

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    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Definitely proof reading. Especially for people who can barely write intelligibly. They can check themselves if the meaning is still correct and they will learn grammar from the process.

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