@skulesz thanks for contributing, Panni. interesting experience.

lot of extremely resourceful, highly technically capable people around this website. I fully expect somebody will have impressive advice for a good modern search experience.

I’m curious to know what your definition of “chat with LLM” is as opposed to a non-chat use of an LLM.

My job is forcing me to “boost my productivity™” and I’ve had a LLM “summarise” some things. But it’s definitely me giving it a command and just seeing what it comes up with. It’s not a back and forth with it like some people do.

Is every interaction with a LLM a chat?

i chat with ai everyday, and i call ai to do what it can do, and it do very good.

The important thing is that you know what it can do, and where is his boundary?

My answer was "not at all" but the truth is I don't know.

I don't intentionally use LLMs.

But when I deal with businesses, is their phone tree real or AI? The chat window I have to go through to reach a customer service agent? The search on their site that's the only way I can find information?

I avoid LLMs rigorously and I suspect I use them far more than I realize.

@rwwh sounds interesting and clever. I'll keep an eye out to learn from your experiences doing that if you share them.

thanks heaps for participating, and for sharing this context which I suppose we should all add to our repertoire for understanding the data we're putting together in our poll.

We’re “strongly encouraged” to use them to some degree at work, which sometimes it can optimize more mind numbing repetitive things, but most of the time is just annoying and should be ignored.

Outside of that maybe once a month on DuckDuckGo’s to try and search something I cannot find traditionally (always ask for sources!).

For personal use, almost zero amount. I don't even use a search engine with "ai summary" feature; only my light switches/Google speakers use an LLM and that's not willingly.

For work, all the time. Literally everything I do is expected to go through Claude. Code, reviews, slack messages, emails, all Claude.

Not voting since I use them in spurts. Sometimes it's an hour, sometimes I have a dry spell. Surprised that there's even people who use LLMs here.

Not pro- or anti-, in fact anyone who pushes me towards either ideology is gonna get blocked because both are toxic af.

Out of our own volition - zero.

When we were trying to get to a technician when our internet was constantly disconnecting in the afternoon (but we knew why - dowstream signal level on the edge of stable values due to high temperatures and coax increasing attenuation as the temperature raised) - few hours across a span of a week trying to make the LLM chatbot finally pass us over to a human being and not spit out the same useless shit (just worded differently). Once we actually got to the technician, the problems were resolved within ~10 minutes, downstream singal no longer sitting at -12 dBmV at some channels.

Our contract with this internet provider ends within 2 months and we'll be switching them for a smaller one, one which still seems to have human beings at support instead of a recorded message when you call them and is pushing you to an useless LLM chatbot.