One use of LLMs that I haven’t seen mentioned before is to use them as a sounding board for your own ideas. By discussing your concept with an LLM, you can gain fresh perspectives through its generated responses.
In this context, the LLM’s actual comprehension is irrelevant. The purpose lies in its ability to spark new thought processes by prompting you with unexpected framings or questions.
Definitely recommend trying this trick next time you’re writing something.
Yeah, I mainly like it as a rubber ducking tool. And specifically in contexts where I already understand the topic well and just want prompts to stimulate more ideas on the subject.
That’s exactly right, you have to know enough about the subject to smell a bullshit answer.