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Choose a pie
Gather necessary utensils (fork, plate, napkin)
Place the pie on the plate
Cut a slice of the pie
Pick up the slice with the fork
Bring the slice to your mouth
Take a bite of the pie
Chew and savor the flavor
Repeat until finished
Dispose of any leftovers responsibly
Clean up the utensils and plate
Maybe an absurd example but I feel like something like this makes it seem even more intimidating to do basic tasks
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Not the parent, but I'm also AuDHD. My current drunk baboon is named OOH LOOK, SHINY but sometimes it's named THIS IS BORING LETS GO DO SOMETHING ELSE. A sufficient dose of a medically prescribed stimulant medication quiets him down enough to usually ignore him, for me. It's been literally life changing. My lack of concrete executive function cost me the job of a lifetime.
Once again, we see that AI stands for automated irresponsibility, not artificial intelligence.
I asked it to break down eating a pie, this is what I got: Choose a pie Gather necessary utensils (fork, plate, napkin) Place the pie on the plate Cut a slice of the pie Pick up the slice with the fork Bring the slice to your mouth Take a bite of the pie Chew and savor the flavor Repeat until finished Dispose of any leftovers responsibly Clean up the utensils and plate Maybe an absurd example but I feel like somethin…
At the lowest you get
- Select a pie
- Grab a fork or your hands
- Take a piece of the pie
- Bring it to your mouth
- Chew and swallow the pie
I did "get a haircut" and it was a pretty good breakdown. Same with "Paint a room in my house". I think these types of tasks are more suitable for step-by-step breakdowns than "eat a pie".
I asked it to break down eating a pie, this is what I got: Choose a pie Gather necessary utensils (fork, plate, napkin) Place the pie on the plate Cut a slice of the pie Pick up the slice with the fork Bring the slice to your mouth Take a bite of the pie Chew and savor the flavor Repeat until finished Dispose of any leftovers responsibly Clean up the utensils and plate Maybe an absurd example but I feel like somethin…
It then gave a time estimate of 3 hours 25 minutes, but I know from my own time tracking that doing a similar series of steps takes me 40 minutes on average.
It seems to overestimate the time taken to do very simple tasks, so if you break the task down too far then it will always wildly overestimate. Perhaps a fix would be to ask the LLM to make one estimate for the overall task, make separate estimates for each subtask, and then ask it to reconcile the two? Something like chain-of-thought/reasoning.
You want to do this well, lean into pre-defined (and user-defined!) checklists instead. Sure, use AI to help people generate the checklist if you must, but the value is having a repeatable procedure.
Would love this as a todoist extension for brainstorming subtasks.
I do like the idea, but here is my first experience: I added "Launch MyProjectName website" (using the real name) and here's what it generated as sub tasks: - Open a web browser - Type "MyProjectName website" into the search bar - Press "Enter" - Locate the official MyProjectName website link in the search results - Click on the link to access the website - Wait for the page to load ------ EDIT: Rate limited, so to r…
I've ADHD and I'm on the spectrum. Others may differ - it's a spectrum after all- but I feel no list-only app will ever silence the drunk baboon on my shoulder constantly pulling my attention from what I'm doing. I'd advise goblin.tools to market itself differently and aim for the neurotypical market as well. #my2cents
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