@maxsidman smartly put.

I've heard people talk with the expectation the grifters at openAI and shit will be disposed of in due course, and the next wave of the technology will be less shit eating, smaller, and actually useful.
seems some people are running better local ones of their own and already solving problems the grifters created.

I expect all the problems to be solved.

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.

How could the total be an odd number given that you always get a response from the machine?

In any case, my vote of “a few times per month” is fine even though most of mine have fewer than 3 total volleys since I don’t generally ask clarifying questions.

Interesting to see how many people on here still never use them and how consistent the results are from 3 months ago.

Thanks!

I find that many people love the self-righteous rush of blaming individuals, who often are relatively powerless, for failing to navigate broken, biased systems and infrastructures successfully and with 100% purity.

Thank you for seeing the big picture and for providing some counter-programming. ❤️

@jesuisatire

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@svavar brilliant, I really enjoy how you approach these things Svavar.

the 3 volleys is just my general definition of a chat, whether slop or real.

(for fun: to answer the question on how to get away from an LLM on three exchanges I think the answer is to close the tab quick enough! 😂)

@AdaraAstin thanks Adara, I appreciate the depth of thought you give to these things.

I recognise purity tests are a tool of abuse systems. we won't tolerate abuse systems.

Wait a minute. Are you complimenting me because you’re a chat bot?

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@svavar you're absolutely right! 😂😂💀

dear god

"I recognise purity tests are a tool of abuse systems. we won't tolerate abuse systems."

I am going to quote you on that in future. ❤️

@AdaraAstin what an honour 🙏

and not even in court! pure class.

@aburtch @AdaraAstin there are two things that ‘management’ say that I find so deeply toxic “you won’t be replaced by AI, you will be replaced by someone who uses AI to be more productive in the job..” And “when did you last use AI? If you have to think about it, you haven’t built the habit. Here are how people use it in their personal life outside of work ….” … I think stay out of my personal life!! But the hyper-mediation through ‘chat’ is being forced upon us. I want search and the need for research from sources.
At work the ‘tools are available.’ And sometimes three is utility. I am glad I am no longer a professional developer. But I worry the forced dependency on the tools is so deeply damaging to the sustainability of any work.

Learning, friction, fibre and deep work are all important. Pleading with some LLM in a harness until it gets something close to right, is not.

@aburtch My heart truly goes out to the many, many people in tech whose jobs have turned into nightmares that way.

It's not like they can quit and walk across the road to a new job in an AI-free shop.

I hope that everyone can stay housed and fed and minimize the damage we do along the way as best we can, while we help each other out and look for ways to contribute to larger scale solutions.

@maxsidman Similar here:

*Use* an LLM? Frequently. Daily if you count Google search summaries, not quite every day but close if you count various LLM-based programming tools.

*Chat with* an LLM? Never voluntarily.