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  • I use it for tedious transformations or needle ones haystack problems.

    They are better at searching for themes or concepts then they are at actually doing any “thinking tasks”. My rule is that if requires a lot of critical thinking then the LLM can do it.

    It’s definitely not all they say it is. I think LLMs will fundamentally always have these problems.

    I’ve actually had a much better time using it for in line completion as if recent. It’s much better when the scope of the problem it needs to “solve” ( the code it needs to find and compose to complete your line ) is like the Goldilocks zone. And if the answer it gives is bad I just keep typing.

    I really hate the way LLM vibe coded slop is written and architecture. To me is clear these things have extremely limited conception. I’ve compared it to essentially ripping out the human language center, giving it a keyboard and asking it to program for you. It’s just no really what it’s good at.














  • Any question that you could get the answer too from reading a sentence or two from a book or article is generally an LLM will probably be able to answer.

    It’s good for surface level exploratory research.

    The deeper you go the more fallacies and bias start to enter the mix. LLMs by nature are biased and will only present you with one or two solutions/options/opinions on why and what.

    Knowing when your hitting that point is difficult. I urge you to read documentation and human written guides and articles once you find yourself surprising what the LLM can give you.

    As a software developer and script writer myself I can guarantee you what a LLM writes is not “gold” it’s more like bronze at best.