Re:Canaries in the Coal Mine? Recent Employment Effects of A...
by godelski on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:56PM
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My favorite use is LLMs is a fuzzy search. Give them a description, to search that, iterate. Or get them to role play an expert in some field. Doesn't matter if they hallucinate. Take that jargon and use it to improve your searches.
They're super helpful in these contexts. But these are also contexts where I don't need to rely on accuracy.
I use LLMs every day. They are useful to me (quite useful), but I don’t really use them for coding. I use them as a “fast reference” source, an editor, or as a teacher.
I’ve been at this since 1983, so I’ve weathered a couple of sea changes.