The single most useful thing I use LLMs for is telling me how to do things in bash. I use bash all the time for one off tasks, but not quite enough to build familiarity with it + learn all the quirks of the commands + language.
90% of the time it gives me a working bash script first shot, each time saving me between 5 minutes to half an hour.
Another thing LLMs are good at is e.g taking a picture of e.g. screw, and asking what type of screw it is.
They’re also great at converting data from one format to another: here’s some JSON, convert it into Yaml. Now prototext. I forgot to mention, use maps instead of nested structs, and use Pascal case. Also the JSON is hand written and not actually legal.
Similarly they’re good at fuzzy data querying tasks. I received this giant error response including full stack trace and lots of irrelevant fields, where’s the actual error, and what lines of the file should I look at.
The single most useful thing I use LLMs for is telling me how to do things in bash. I use bash all the time for one off tasks, but not quite enough to build familiarity with it + learn all the quirks of the commands + language.
90% of the time it gives me a working bash script first shot, each time saving me between 5 minutes to half an hour.
Another thing LLMs are good at is e.g taking a picture of e.g. screw, and asking what type of screw it is.
They’re also great at converting data from one format to another: here’s some JSON, convert it into Yaml. Now prototext. I forgot to mention, use maps instead of nested structs, and use Pascal case. Also the JSON is hand written and not actually legal.
Similarly they’re good at fuzzy data querying tasks. I received this giant error response including full stack trace and lots of irrelevant fields, where’s the actual error, and what lines of the file should I look at.