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.

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...

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

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...

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

@falcennial