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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 02:05:02 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   Do people actually use LLMs for anything useful? Every single time I've wasted time with them .. they hallucinate. It is worse than talking to a junior developer ...

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     potpie (potpie@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 02:20:07 JST potpie

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     @amszmidt As a Latin teacher I sometimes make multiple choice translation questions, so I need to come up with incorrect translations for the distraction answers. LLMs are great for that: it's the most use I've gotten out of them.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 02:22:39 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     @potpie Ha, that is a wonderful use case for bullshit generators!

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     Joël Franušić (jpf@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 02:27:37 JST Joël Franušić

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     @amszmidt I use LLMs almost constantly when programming. What I’ve found the most useful is having an LLM find answers about code for me. Claude Code did a great job at answering “what does the version need to be set to in a 9P QID to hint that it shouldn’t be cached” … but for every good example I can give you several disappointing ones.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 02:49:45 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Joël Franušić

     @jpf I asked, "give me the definition of FOO function" ... it started giving me entirely different things. I've literally never had any "luck" getting anything useful from LLMs.... And I think that there could be some useful cases, but none of them really work .. and cause more work/pain.