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Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by embedding-shape on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:06PM (#45735587)
I've found LLMs helpful for figuring out what I don't know, then I can go and look up how those things work, again together with an LLM.

But in the past, once I got to the point where I know I could maybe do something about it, but not exactly what, and I don't know any of the domain words used, you got pretty much stuck unless you asked other people, either locally or on the internet.

At least now I can explore what I don't know, and decide if it's relevant or not. It's really helpful when diving into new topics, because it gives you a starting point.

I would never send something to a real human that a LLM composed without me, I still want to write and decide everything 100% myself, but I use more LLMs as a powerful search engine where you can put synonyms or questions and get somewhat fine answers from it.

Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k by nonethewiser on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @01:45PM (#45736181)
Absolutely. It's cheap (as far as the user is concerned) to just fire off a question. And it can even be really fuzzy/ambiguous/ill-defined sometimes. It's a great starting point.