There are some good reasons for using it, and other AI tools, but not for anything like essays, eulogies, texts, or for anything attempting to replace creativity.
Replies
LLMs, because they're NOT AI, have yet to prove better than any alternative at doing anything substantive.
aug 3, 2025, 1:13 am • 1 0 • view
Like what
aug 2, 2025, 10:13 pm • 23 0 • view
Coding (not vibe coding), medical imaging and South Park making Trump PSA's.
aug 2, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
it's fine when ur using it to categorize a trillion trillion tiny units of noise data, like in genome sequencing or if you were to analyze the electrical signals traveling down your nervous system to affect your hand to articulate the immensely complicated musculature of flipping the bird at someone
aug 3, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I am very much anti-LLM for most things, but the summaries of reviews on Amazon can be useful, to be honest.
aug 3, 2025, 1:25 am • 0 0 • view
It's useful for a lot of software development stuff, like diagnosing error messages, finding appropriate tools, explaining concepts etc. it's also good at identifying pictures, like what is this animal or plant?
aug 2, 2025, 11:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Alt text. STT models. A lot of undifferentiated heavy lifting type stuff.
aug 2, 2025, 11:55 pm • 0 0 • view
For other AI tools, aiding medical analysis and scientific research, neither of which are replacements for creativity. Personally for ChatGPT, it found errors in Excel spreadsheet formulas I was using which got me out of a hole when a deadline was approaching and the results didn't make sense.
aug 3, 2025, 6:21 am • 0 0 • view
Powershell scripts, but no id don’t use it for any of the reasons stated in the original post.
aug 2, 2025, 10:55 pm • 2 0 • view
give them a second while they ask ChatGPT what it's good for.
aug 2, 2025, 10:38 pm • 38 0 • view
It dramatically outperforms traditional optical character recognition software. It's okay for summarizing themes in open-ended survey questions across 100s to 1,000s of responses - when exact themes are unnecessary. Otherwise, it fits with areas where "minimum viable product" may be acceptable.
aug 2, 2025, 11:02 pm • 6 0 • view
While studying for exams last year my son asked it to generate sample questions. He then wrote the answers and asked it for feedback on his answers. That's better than anything you can do with a textbook. He's not blindly trusting it's right, but it's a useful addition to his study.
aug 3, 2025, 11:20 am • 2 0 • view