cthos 🐱 on Nostr: I wrote a bit about the "one good use of LLMs" (namely, a bunch of different "one ...
I wrote a bit about the "one good use of LLMs" (namely, a bunch of different "one good uses") I keep seeing and why those aren't good, actually.
https://alextheward.com/blog/llms_are_a_cognitohazard/A lot of this boils down to "if you care about accuracy and learning, you shouldn't be using an LLM for anything".
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