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Have you used so-called "AI" for actually productive work ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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With copilot included in Professional-grade Office 365 and some politician claiming that their government should use AI to be more efficient. I am curious on whether some of you did use "AI" to get some productive things done. Or if it's still mostly a toy for you.

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[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I use GPT in the sense of "I need to solve X problem, are there established algorithms for this?" which usually gives me a good starting point for actual searching.

Most recent use-case was judging the similarity of two strings: I had never heard of "Levenschtein distance" before, but once I had that keyword it was easy to work from there.

Also: cmake and bash boilerplate

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Describing a concept and getting the term is awesome with an LLM.

I’ve found documentation and discussions of various strategies I’m considering in tech work.

I describe my idea, the LLM gives me the existing term for that strategy, and then I can find discussion, guides, and theory about that. Keeps me from reinventing the wheel.

[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It makes sense when you think about it too: It's a language model, so it should be expected to do a decent job as a glorified dictionary