2 pointsby bitbasher3 hours ago5 comments
  • lasiotus2 hours ago
    I've been working on Motor OS for almost five years now. In May during the short Fable window it helped me find and fix a race that I've been debugging for about three months. Since July (when Fable, and later Astra) became available, most items on the roadmap have been fixed. What it would take me ~ 3 months doing myself (evenings and weekends), LLMs complete in about a week (with supervision; even Fable MAX and Astra MAX need supervision when doing critical low-level stuff).
  • zahlman2 hours ago
    Many web searches that once would have been practically impossible (e.g. due to semantic overloading of the obvious search terms) have become easy, and an LLM can go above and beyond that to synthesize information from multiple sources on different topics. It's as if the power of database joins has come to web research. Taking multiple "conversation turns" to refine with an LLM chat bot is also considerably more powerful than a search engine's "AI overview".
    • bitbasheran hour ago
      Are you mainly using LLMs as a search replacement or augmentation? Are you using it in other capacities like code generation, etc?
  • lf882 hours ago
    I'm not using them at all. I am too worried about certain aspects of the technology and its current trajectory, which I consider a very serious threat to humanity.
    • bitbasheran hour ago
      Are you worries on an existential level, or more personal level?
  • elmer23 hours ago
    Daily. It doesn't replace my thinking. I use it as another tool.

    It's reduced my time spent on complex reporting from many hours to maybe an hour/week.

    This is only one way I'm using it.

  • spottedmarleyan hour ago
    Im building all my own personalized apps for all the things that I do. It's pretty amazing, I never get tired of improving and personalizing my apps to more perfectly fit the way I use them.

    None are on my github and I don't generally share them or even tell people much about them. My whole life I've been using the same software as everyone else but now it's a whole new world where my software is completely built for me. Software is like a wardrobe now and everyone can design their own clothes.