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Ask HN: What do you use LLMs for?

#1
Just wanted to start a small discussion about why you use LLMs and which model works best for your use case.

I am asking because I am concerned that there is little use for LLMs apart from doing role play, helping with coding, and answering general questions

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#5
It's good for stuff you can't google because you don't know the name of the thing you'd need to google.

E.g. Learning programming, when I see something I don't understand I ask it to explain - i.e. "What do the brackets represent in the following code?:"

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#7
I use it for coding a few times per month. Yesterday I had it convert some jQuery to JavaScript, that was kind of nice.

I use Kagi for search and will use their Quick Answer feature, which also provides sources, which I’ll usually click through to. It helps get me to the right page when there is more context and a simple search leaves me hunting more than I’d like.

That’s about it. None of my projects are using LLMs, nor do I have plans to. I’m a consumer and the consumption is pretty limited.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use LLMs for?

#8
I've come up with a few minor ideas, mostly for around the home.

I created a little web app (that I just run locally for now) where I can give it a recipe url and it will fetch the content and feed it to the LLM and adjust it to my cooking preferences.

For example, a lot of recipes will mask things as ingredients that are really steps, like "1 bell pepper, diced". The LLM can separate it into 1 bell pepper as an ingredient and dicing it as a step.

Another thing that annoys me in recipes is that the amounts for ingredients, like spices, aren't included in the steps; I hate scrolling back up to check how much to add.

I threw it together as a weekend project and it works ok; I'd like to add a small chat component to it so that I can revise recipes during or after and save them for the future, because I make mental notes of how I should make it next time but never remember them.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use LLMs for?

#9
Been using llm for following usecase Big llm like Claude and gpt for coding help Copilot for coding Local llm like mistral2 for 1. Parsing LinkedIn posts to find jobs and put them in Google sheets 2. Mental sparring by giving local llm a problem and asking it to ask important questions instead of answer. This helps me identify if I have thought it through or have i missed some things
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