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The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by samstave »

vemv wrote: post #40

There's a long gap from: I built a podcast search website to: Staying in any company right now is a negative return. We humans are too easily impressed by tricks, and are too willing to extrapolate them to fantasy land. GPT can certainly accomplish an impressive variety of small tasks. Whether it can build large-scale systems that will power tomorrow's world is uncharted territory. Can you build something meaningful,…

>GPT can certainly accomplish an impressive variety of small tasks. Whether it can build large-scale systems that will power tomorrow's world is uncharted territory.

There is an INCREDIBLE amount of opaque BI that can be unlocked with GPT/AI etc.

I have already used it to get some extremely quick market infor about certain things.

AI is going to make a lot of people smarter, much faster and cheaper than current institutions.

classes are going to get more refined, and honestly, certain industries need to be utterly destroyed by AI (legal being my primary target, as they have too much fraud)

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by renjimen »

mazzystar wrote: post #144
renjimen wrote: post #122

> Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage. I think it's a bit sad that the only benefit someone can see in their workplace is their salary. Also, I get the feeling this person has never done anything outside of consumer app development with minimal stakeholder interaction. Overall I think it's great we can supercharge our learning and coding capabilities, but it would…

As the author of the article, I would say it has nothing to do with money. It has to do with your definition of living your life in a more meaningful way. By return I don't mean money, but your energy, time and potential. Also, I admire the group that optimized OS, but I'm just not used to teamwork. In my previous job, once I had come up with an idea of having a virtual pet, and they thought it was awesome, but when…

Thanks for replying! Also, great username, great band.

I totally agree there are different strokes for different folks, and some sectors are really well suited to solo work. I personally enjoy the security of working for a company and having a large set of diverse colleagues. I know many here on HN are more of the startup mindset, like yourself.

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Post by croes »

senko wrote: post #102

> Current documentation is written for human reading, with a mix of text and code blocks that makes copying a poor experience. Perhaps soon, documentation and APIs will become GPT-friendly first. Yes. I have recently annotated my Pydantic models and fields with the explicit intention to use the resulting JSONSchema to inform GPT how to structure some information (in effect, writing a one-off client for an internal AP…

I thought the point of GPT is to be human like and not that humans adapt to GPT.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by tiedieconderoga »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #17

This post reminded me that I’m still somewhat surprised ChatGPT-like systems did not arise out of China first due to their massive investment funds for AI and their base of stem talent. Once they catch-up their censors will have a super power and people will have their writings censored before they hit submit. Will be an interesting decade.

The censors are one of the main reasons why China is so far behind on AI R&D.

No unfiltered training data, and severe penalties if the AI hallucinates something that is against the party line.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by croes »

I wonder if this is really a benefit for learning something.

A teacher who tells you the right answers doesn't sound like a good teacher.

In hindsight I learned the most from my mistakes and the errors I'm to fix over longer period of time. Sometimes these failures were of use in later projects.

I missing all this from GPT. It doesn't really sound like learning more like cheating.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by latexr »

valine wrote: post #70
collaborative wrote: post #57

AI tools are absolutely useless once you get past any initial stage in a software development cycle They just can't comprehend what needs to be done even if all that's required are 2 lines of code However, we keep seeing posts from people who don't know html or how to create a chrome extension paternalizing about how we can be much more productive with AI tools. Last I heard a CEO was demanding dev increased producti…

This sounds to me like you have no idea how to properly integrate LLMs into your workflow. Just because they’re not useful for changing large code bases doesn’t mean they can’t be valuable. A few examples of things I’ve used LLMs for: Writing bash scripts to automate various parts my workflow Quickly interpreting complex regex Tutoring me on how to use poorly documented APIs Proof reading important emails Everything…

> Writing bash scripts to automate various parts my workflow

Would you share some of those? Bash is fraught with gotchas and intricacies and seldom have I read Bash code where I couldn’t immediately spot flaws. There’s often something which left unchecked may come back to bite you later.

I’m skeptical the LLM code would be any better, since it’s (presumably) trained on a corpus of subpar code. But I could be wrong.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by protosevn »

simonw wrote: post #155
the_doctah wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who use ChatGPT to spit out code as a method of learning software engineering are going to be seriously deficient in fundamentals like performance. I've already worked with way too many engineers who copy/paste code without understanding what it does.

I think this is currently an open question. It may turn out that ChatGPT results in a new generation of developers who produce terrible code, full of flaws, with no understanding of how it actually works. Or... it might be that ChatGPT helps newcomers get over that horrendous initial learning curve, start by writing bad code... and then get better at it. I'm currently cautiously optimistic that the latter scenario is…

I'm on year two of my journey to become a game developer, i am focusing on programming and if i realize i don´t want to work with games in the future at least i have solid knowledge on how to deal with a broad area of software problems.

I don´t rely on ChatGPT to write any code for me but i do use it whenever there´s a concept i don´t understand and if there´s any problem blocking me from getting forward in my many programming books. Having a tireless teacher/mentor with extensive knowledge and who does not care however stupid question you ask is a very good tool for learning.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by mazzystar »

renjimen wrote: post #173
mazzystar wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As the author of the article, I would say it has nothing to do with money. It has to do with your definition of living your life in a more meaningful way. By return I don't mean money, but your energy, time and potential. Also, I admire the group that optimized OS, but I'm just not used to teamwork. In my previous job, once I had come up with an idea of having a virtual pet, and they thought it was awesome, but when…

Thanks for replying! Also, great username, great band. I totally agree there are different strokes for different folks, and some sectors are really well suited to solo work. I personally enjoy the security of working for a company and having a large set of diverse colleagues. I know many here on HN are more of the startup mindset, like yourself.

Yes, so I believe the target audience for this article is people who want to create and make a small difference in the world using only their own hands.

Re: The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals

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Post by alimov »

croes wrote: post #176

I wonder if this is really a benefit for learning something. A teacher who tells you the right answers doesn't sound like a good teacher. In hindsight I learned the most from my mistakes and the errors I'm to fix over longer period of time. Sometimes these failures were of use in later projects. I missing all this from GPT. It doesn't really sound like learning more like cheating.

I think that depends on how you use the tool. For example asking for answers vs asking probing questions while working something out. So it’s probably up to you as an individual. If you’re missing out on “all this” you might just be asking for answers.
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