What I've found with LLMs is they're basically a better version of Google Search. If I need a quick "How do I do..." or if I need to find a quick answer to something its way more useful than Google and the fact that I can ask follow up questions is amazing. But for any serious deep work it has a long way to go.

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mr_moon 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I feel exactly the same way. why skim and sift 15 different stackoverflow posts when an LLM can pick out exactly the info I need?

I don't need to spin up an entire feature in a few seconds. I need help understanding where something is broken; what are some opinions o best practice; or finding out what a poorly written snippet is doing.

context still v important for this though and I appreciate cranking that capacity. "read 15000 stackoverflow posts for me please"

	▲	anvuong 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The action of sifting through through poop to find gold actually positively develops my critical thinking skill. I, too, went through a phase of just asking LLM for a specific concept instead of Googling it and weave through dozens of wiki pages or niche mailing list discussions. It did improve my productivity but I feel like it dulls my brain. So recently I have to tone that down and force myself to go back to the old way. Maybe too much of a good thing is bad.

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Whatarethese 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is my primary use of AI. Looking for a new mountain bike and using AI to list and compare parts of the bike and which is best for my use case scenario. Works pretty well so far.

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throawaywpg 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Google always planned search to be just a stopgap