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I've always wanted to be more of a handy man, never knew where to start. I used LLMs to create a toolkit and then used it to fix various stuff around the house. I'm at the point where I'm comfortable with beginner projects moving onto intermediate, and I feel like the quality of my works beats those of hired help at my level of competence. So... I'm glad I could off-load some cognition to LLMs and get to the actual useful parts.

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Same. I find LLMs are pretty good at helping me understand things I didn't know that I didn't know, that I really needed to know. Which has never been easy to get in a timely manner exclusively through more classic means of research.

That and it's good for going down rabbit holes of questioning a topic that, before, you'd have to reserve for when you accidentally find a resource that perfectly answers that niche question line, or when you're somehow in conversation with someone who has expertise in the thing you're questioning.

Even in this audience is a significant portion that doesn't have a clue about the limits and pitfalls of AI. For people outside tech it is obviously worse, much likely the vast majority. If you succeed with it, it doesn't mean everybody does.

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