I think that’s a good approach. Personally I find LLMs quite fascinating but they’re deeply flawed. They can barely be used in production environments, especially unsupervised. The workflows regarding LLMs are very esoteric with specific prompting techniques etc and while all LLMs have similar flaws each model and model version behaves differently. It’s super weird and unreliable. Like one big workaround that has so much investment that it keeps improving every month but still stays shitty at it’s base.

You can use LLMs for things that where not possible or very difficult with traditional search engines.

E.g. I wanted to know what kind of brake my daughters bike used. Traditionally I’d either have to research all possible brake types and compare then with her bike or take a photo and post it to a forum or reddit or something and hope someone knows the answer.

With ChatGPT (I only use the free version) I just took a photo and asked what kind of break it was and got a (actually good) list of 2 possible brakes. It was one of the two.

Very convenient. However, I’m aware how LLMs work and what their limitations are. Of course also the environmental issues.

BTW: It was a band brake.

It depends on training, prompting and reasoning capabilities.

Sometimes they’re prompted to not be assertive. You can often tell them though to e.g. “behave like an XYZ expert in a bad mood who doesn’t accept nonsense”.

I’ve had e.g. ChatGPT contest me a lot even though I was right. It was about a bicycle brake design I had never seen before. It gave me some options of what it could be and helped me to actually find out what it was. However after I did some research and found out what the actual type was it kept doubting my result and insisted it was a different kind of brake.

We had fathers day on 14. of May. It was okay. Had a little present basket for my father with foreign beers and crisps and got myself a kindergarten crafted present from my daughter.

What fucks me up lately is my own behavior in dreams. I get super pissed off for things that would be slightly annoying in real life. E.g. in the last dream some uncle of my wife who doesn’t actually exist wanted me to unpack and connect a new washing machine (which IRL is a bit of a problem because I have back issues with herniated discs). Also IRL this would be a bit stressful because it’s in our basement and there’s not a lot of room and the water valves are not great etc. Anyways this (the uncle demanding me to do things and not thinking about my back) got me super butthurt and in my dream, I punched doors and shouted something and then ran to the bedroom and cried when I heard the rest of the family which for some reason where all in the house say things like “what’s up with [my name]?”

I’ve had a few similar dreams recently and I hate them.

I rarely have good dreams but I’m more used to dreams where I lose important shit, forget important things, get lost or where escalators kill me. I even prefer the body horror dreams where my or some loved ones teeth fall out.

I once made one for a friend’s birthday. The present was inside and she had to smash it open to get it

A tasty looking muffin made of cement and painted

Little bags of powdered sugar?

Do something or if your comfort zone. Maybe something where you have concentrate fully on what you’re doing on the moment, like climbing or downhill mountain biking or something like that but stay safe (instructor, safety equipment etc)

I have no idea how that works, especially in the US but I imagine there are some big ugly corporations that somehow got licensing costs in there. Like licensed learning materials or methods and stuff like that.

Nothing, it’s a South Park reference

It’s a place in Germany actually

Swamps, cigars and drug smuggling.

You’re not wrong. At work I have the bizarre situation that I have a laptop which is pretty powerful but I’m not allowed to develop on it and have no admin rights on it so I have to remote desktop into a less powerful VDI running in a different country with exactly the same access to company information but I have local admin rights on that machine. Also development is super cumbersome because it’s a windows VDI so I have to use WSL2 for a lot of the things I’m doing. Really weird, inefficient and expensive.

I hope NPU hardware like CIX Clawcore will become more common for Developers. They can run 30B models locally and these smaller models are getting better and more efficient as well (MoE etc).

The hardware still burns energy and resources and costs money but locally so you are responsible for it and don’t externalize everything into some data centers and investor / public money.

But this rubber duck knows about programming. However, especially early on the duck lied a lot and now often insists that the API version it learned a year ago is still the latest and everything you’ve done with the new one is wrong. Well, now you l can let it read the new documentation beforehand but it’s still a weird rubber duck.