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They’re pervasive in an annoying way, and the boosters are using them for utterly ridiculous things.
They have their very limited uses. For short things they can be useful, within reason. “How do you take these results and transform them into X in Python” then take a very squinty look at it and figure out where it went wrong. Then, try asking a couple follow-ups and the code just scrambles.
For writing I’ve found they're pretty useless, because I can’t figure out how to prompt them to not sound like they’re in the marketing department and blowing smoke.
But they can be a good starting point for finding information when I’m looking for something that’s really a Reddit question, rather than something I can summarize into keywords for a search engine. Still, too often useless.
I recently had someone send me “is it cheaper to air bnb or get a hotel at $destination” and it was absurdly incorrect, as in off by a factor of two. When it would have taken mere seconds more to get correct information. I have relatives who work in professions which literally define accuracy (accounting and law) and they rely on them for stuff like that, and it’s so provably incorrect
In case you wanna give it a shot: I gave writing samples of myself from chat and emails to a self hosted LLM, telling it to extract the writing style deviations, key elements, common phrases, symbols, patterns, etc. Then gave that as a "answer it this style" system prompt expansion - works like ... Quite okay. Still need to go over it or course but it doesn't sound like marketing bullshit but conveys what I want.
Completely agree with your general assessment though! They're getting better but the marketing machinery is crazy in their claims.
Yeah in my experience the better your input (original writing) and prompt, the better it does, although I think it really depends on what you're looking for.
I can be a bit... Verbose..? So when there is a character or text limit I will use an LLM to shorten or condense my thoughts, which has turned out fairly well, but I bet the quality degrades quickly as the inputs degrade in quality.
Caveman plugin: why use many token when few do trick
They are definitely insanely pervasive right now.