> In this scenario your starting out as an gardener, would you rather having LLM "plant me five bulbs and two tulips in ideal soil conditions" or would you rather grow them yourself? If the latter you wouldn't gain skills as if you had the previous year made the compost, double dug the soil and sowed the seeds. All this knowledge learnt, skills gained and achievement that lost in the process. You may be novice and it may not bring all your flowers to bloom but if you succeed in one, that's the accomplishment, the feel good energy.

I am a novice in the garden. I do it because I want to, because it's fun to do.

I don't know what does and doesn't work, and therefore I am asking LLMs (VLMs) lots of questions. I am learning from it.

But I know it is not as smart as it acts, that it will tell me untrue things. I upload a photo of a mystery weed, ChatGPT tells me it's a tomato, I can tell it's not a tomato because of the tiny black berries, I ask around on Telegram and it's a self-seeding solanum nigrum.

Other times, the AI is helpful:

  Me: [upload a picture of the root ball of my freshly purchased Thuja Brabant]

  ChatGPT: That root ball is severely root-bound—classic “pot-shape memory”. If planted as-is, the roots will continue circling, restricting growth and potentially strangling the plant over time.

  You must correct this before planting. Here’s how:

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