I thought we agreed that all of these “AI” systems are fundamentally just making shit up, and that if they happen to construct coherent sentences more often than your phone’s predictive-text keyboard then the difference is one of degree rather than kind. It’s amazing that the technology works as well as it does, but it’s been clear for a while now that these tools are unreliable, and that that unreliability is inherent.

So are human brains! No shit!

But you know what? I can throw recipes at ChatGPT and it can make some amazing variations! It is actually pretty good at making cocktails if you start off with some initial ideas. Sure it sucks at math, but it is still super useful!

Oh and bug fixing. LLMs can go over dozens of files of code and find weird async bugs.

Mocking out classes! I hate writing Jest mocks, and 100% of the time I get the syntax for proxying objects slightly wrong and spend (literal) hours debugging things. GPT is great at that.

Summarizing meeting transcripts, wonderful!

Or just throw an history entire book into Claude's absurdly large context window and start asking questions.