Learning, friction, fibre and deep work are all important. Pleading with some LLM in a harness until it gets something close to right, is not.

For work, all the time. Literally everything I do is expected to go through Claude. Code, reviews, slack messages, emails, all Claude.

dear god

Wait a minute. Are you complimenting me because you’re a chat bot?

## translate the final output to Spanish

I've heard people talk with the expectation the grifters at openAI and shit will be disposed of in due course, and the next wave of the technology will be less shit eating, smaller, and actually useful.
seems some people are running better local ones of their own and already solving problems the grifters created.

I expect all the problems to be solved.

I recognise purity tests are a tool of abuse systems. we won't tolerate abuse systems.

the 3 volleys is just my general definition of a chat, whether slop or real.

(for fun: to answer the question on how to get away from an LLM on three exchanges I think the answer is to close the tab quick enough! )

Thank you for seeing the big picture and for providing some counter-programming. ️

like maintaining a vegan diet in a country where milk powder is a food additive in almost every food. does eating it make one "not vegan"? that question is a trick. it's an infrastructure issue. the culprits, have no right to compromise a person's identity or values by putting milk powder in their food. the victim is not in question. the abusers are.

the real question is how will we break those who abuse our resources.

Yeah not a 100% sure what the question is.

Is it do I USE a LLM to chat? = Hell no

Am I forced to chat to LLMS when contacting say a bank? Yes but I tend to disengage

thanks for clarifying.

a few people have found the question a challenge, risen to it, made decisions to answer it, and then shared context. incredibly generous. there is a ton of insight, all of which is open to all to learn from.

if you'd like to do similar, or even if you'd rather share a full answer and skip the poll I assure you you'll be heard and valued too.

How could the total be an odd number given that you always get a response from the machine?

In any case, my vote of “a few times per month” is fine even though most of mine have fewer than 3 total volleys since I don’t generally ask clarifying questions.

Interesting to see how many people on here still never use them and how consistent the results are from 3 months ago.

Thanks!

I don't intentionally use LLMs.

But when I deal with businesses, is their phone tree real or AI? The chat window I have to go through to reach a customer service agent? The search on their site that's the only way I can find information?

I avoid LLMs rigorously and I suspect I use them far more than I realize.

this poll tells us only what some tiny subset of mastodon users, who are in turn a microscopically small group, think

my answer is that I appreciate when people use their own definitions in their answers, because what better way to contextualise their own experience than with meaningful definitions. I appreciate it doubly when they share those definitons, as you have done – thanks!

for everyone else, dictionaries are a great tool for the job. or I'm happy to share my own as a last resort. I consider a "chat" to be communication exchange of 3 or more total volleys.