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kranneryesterday at 2:16 PM1 replyview on HN

>> you will not have that delightful experience of encountering something unexpected along the way to filling it.

> There's nothing stopping you from doing that with an LLM.

There may be, though. The LLM's initial output may anchor your thinking in insidious ways that may not be obvious at all especially since you're feeling productive. I bet the lack of confidence around starting would also increase over time every time you use an LLM to get over the hump.


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Kyeyesterday at 3:37 PM

Not so far.

I'm not talking about using a default mode LLM with LinkedIn Standard Obsequious Bullshit as a conversational imperative that emerges from simple prompts interacting with the heaviest weights. It pushes back because I told it to and it has redirects around common LLM failure modes, and modes unique to how I use them. That's in a set of instructions I've had a bunch of different models tear apart so I could put it back together better.

I treat it and describe it as a language coprocessor, not a buddy. The instructions are the kernel I boot it with.

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