How do you reconcile the fact that LLMs can be pretty fair-weather? Meaning, while they can serve as a sounding board and often raise perspectives you might not have thought of, they don't have much conviction and will change their tune if you push them in the other direction enough.
My approach is to compliment the LLM on something I've not thought of and ask it to sell me on the approach, expound on its position, and ask probing questions. If I get a feeling something's off I just go do independent research like normal.
One of these days I’m going to get around to writing a little bash script or something that will let me take a plain-ish text file and upload it into Jira via the API.
I should be able to create a Jira ticket in however long it takes me to type the acceptance criteria plus a second or two. Instead I’ve got slow loading pages, I’ve got spinners, I’ve got dropdowns populating asynchronously that steal focus from what I’m typing, I’ve got whatever I was typing then triggering god knows what shortcuts causing untold chaos.
For a system that is—at least how we use it at my job—a glorified todo list, it is infuriating. If I’m even remotely busy lately I just add “raise a ticket for x” to my actual todo list and do it some other time instead.
earlier in my career it'd be appealing to make jokes like that, or include a comment in an email. eventually you realize that people - especially "older" or those already a few years into their career - mostly don't want to joke around and just want to actually get the thing done you are meeting about.
AR for the regular guy is something which I remember installing on my mobile over ten years ago - with low expectations, and it never got any better than that, quite the contrary. Powered by AI or not, seems nobody has found (or looked for) a market for this.
Another decade, another attempt? We are aiming for this with our work at Credible (https://mycredible.ai and our chrome extension) - product is still early, I'd be curious to get your first thoughts or reaction.
right now, the opportunity cost is probably as high as it's ever been (unrelated, but same also applies to people considering business school etc). What got you looking into it?
Whoops I missed following up here. It's been on my mind for a few years, after seeing someone talk about it (probably here or linked from here). Maybe from Julia Evans?
recently went through the process of picking a new hub and it took hours to locate one actually appropriate to my use case. Helpfully enough, chatgpt/claude were both good at locating ones with specific needs (x USB-C ports, y USB-A, no HDMI, no SD card readers), would probably have taken a lot longer without.
LLMs really are fantastic tools for shopping and product comparison. It's going to suck once the marketers manage to successfully do the equivalent of SEO on them
