• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    1 day ago

    I am using them as a side tool for development. I think LLMs are already very performent for web knowledge search (e.g. replacing a search on stackoverflow), suggestions, explanations and error detection. Although is it worth the resources consumption? Not sure, but I can’t afford not staying on top of the tooling available for my job. However, I agree, in my experience, the edit/agent modes are not efficient for coding, for now.

    Generating secondary dialogues for a video game is quite a lower quality requirement than software engineering. So I think it could work there. It requires sounding natural, not being exact, LLMs are good at this.

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      web knowledge search

      yeah for low stakes how-tos I’ve been asking more and more using one of the free LLMs. For higher stakes I ask for their sources if they can give it and go from them on my own.

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        It’s been really nice to be able to type a plain question (in any language) into Google and receive a concise answer before scrolling down to confirm with more trustworthy sources. In particular it’s been very good for solving annoyances with UI options by directing me to exactly what I’m looking for. A traditional search will often conflate my search with synonyms (even when using quotations, which is some bullshit), and even ignore what language my search was in.

        e: Also you should be careful when clicking on any links provided by an LLM because they can accidentally send you phishing links.

        • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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          15 hours ago

          SEO destroyed google’s usefulness. AI is a cope for that but AI kills the incentives for very thing it depends on for it’s usefulness, user generated content.