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How frequently do you chat with LLM?
@falcennial Chat as a person? Never. Chat as in "get these two files and combine them into one, and adjust formatting" because that's how my work is now? A few times a week. Also the thing is literally part of the operating system. I don't think I can search for an e-mail without using it?
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@falcennial @aemstuz What an opportunity to put backdoors all over the system. “LLM gave me this code”.
@brie That's an accepted risk. Let's create a ticket in the backlog to fix that later
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@trechnex @falcennial I haven't had an employer require me to use any LLM-based tools yet and I'm legitimately curious about what that looks like.
Like my employers care less about how a task gets accomplished and more about it being accomplished, so long as I'm using approved tools and not say, buying subscriptions that haven't been vetted.
It's hard to imagine getting a directive that I *have* to use an LLM
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@falcennial I use a local LLM on my rig just to have fun with it, like how it was used back in 2022 - early 2023. I did use a tiny mdel on my phone back in 2024 for help in excel shortcuts cos there was no internet where I was at the time.
It does use up a lot of power (uses around 1 - 2% per minute) and it heats my phone up, and the processing time is so abysmal you can only ask one question, granted my phone isn't really top of the line and it's 5 years old...
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@falcennial last month i used an ai to decipher 1000 lines of linux error messages to figure out why my wifi adapter wasnt working. hard to duckduckgo 1000 lines of text. but other than that i never use em.
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@falcennial I mean, DuckDuckGo was my first stop until recently, but it's even worse at finding things than StartPage which I always end up at, so I just started defaulting to that. And that isn't great at finding stuff either! No boolean operators, and stuff just plain doesn't turn up!
@indigoparadox @falcennial I have *really* tried using DDG and also *really* frustrated with the results.
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@falcennial I use a local LLM on my rig just to have fun with it, like how it was used back in 2022 - early 2023. I did use a tiny mdel on my phone back in 2024 for help in excel shortcuts cos there was no internet where I was at the time.
It does use up a lot of power (uses around 1 - 2% per minute) and it heats my phone up, and the processing time is so abysmal you can only ask one question, granted my phone isn't really top of the line and it's 5 years old...
I really don't use it for anything serious cos I can "see through the ruse" whenever I "talk" to one and I really don't take what it says to me seriously.
Over time tho I learned to separate a part in my brain, kinda like a virtual machine whenever I "talk" to one so once I'm done with it, I totally forget what did I even talk about to the local LLM.
But between choosing an LLM to talk to and not talking to anyone or anything for a month, I'd rather choose not talk to anything
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I really don't use it for anything serious cos I can "see through the ruse" whenever I "talk" to one and I really don't take what it says to me seriously.
Over time tho I learned to separate a part in my brain, kinda like a virtual machine whenever I "talk" to one so once I'm done with it, I totally forget what did I even talk about to the local LLM.
But between choosing an LLM to talk to and not talking to anyone or anything for a month, I'd rather choose not talk to anything
...cos I lived without friends and LLM's for two years before they popped up around 2022.
I still don't understand why billions of people think of it as like their companion in their life and... eugh... solution to their loneliness. I solve my loneliness by literally doing anything my gut wants me to do.
Sure it's prolly hard for everyone to be alone, I'm just a dumb bear but I haven't had friends for 6 years yet I don't feel like desperately needing for a companion...
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...cos I lived without friends and LLM's for two years before they popped up around 2022.
I still don't understand why billions of people think of it as like their companion in their life and... eugh... solution to their loneliness. I solve my loneliness by literally doing anything my gut wants me to do.
Sure it's prolly hard for everyone to be alone, I'm just a dumb bear but I haven't had friends for 6 years yet I don't feel like desperately needing for a companion...
So yeah, even if I talk to a local LLM multiple times per week, I really don't take what it outputs seriously, and if "AI" goes away, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I'd just yawn and move on.
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@trechnex @falcennial I haven't had an employer require me to use any LLM-based tools yet and I'm legitimately curious about what that looks like.
Like my employers care less about how a task gets accomplished and more about it being accomplished, so long as I'm using approved tools and not say, buying subscriptions that haven't been vetted.
It's hard to imagine getting a directive that I *have* to use an LLM
@jprjr @falcennial I'm fortunate that my employer encourages us to follow an "AI First" approach and periodically asks for feedback.
I know people working at other companies where management has been given KPIs for adoption and individual token usage is monitored.
tbh my most frequent use at work is pulling up Jira tickets without having to write my own JQL queries to get the same answer. But it's starting to become useful with day-to-day tasks.
I work as a technical writer, and a lot of people I know who work in that discipline have lost their jobs because management in US tech companies often feel that AI means everyone can write docs now and nobody will be reading because they'll be using a chat bot. The worm will turn when businesses realise the value they've lost, but until then it's a bad time for us collectively because the deep subject matter expert with decades of experience is being supplanted by the shallow generalist that can work cross-functionally and churn out copy.
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