I still find all the models so far useless for real work
sensanaty on Hacker News
9 times out of 10 the reply I get is barely any more coherent
In the thread “Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: Forgetting instructions, dropping context, looping, and wrong facts.
… I suspect the next refrain is gonna be along the lines of me using it wrong, or using the wrong model, or the wrong prompt, or this or that. At the end of the day, if even after arduously trying to use it pretty much daily I still find all the models so far useless for real work, then no amount of fanboyism is going to convince me to disregard the reality of it as I experience it. I can write the most insanely in-depth prompt on the planet (wasting 10 minutes of my time in the process), and 9 times out of 10 the reply I get is barely any more coherent than a single sentence along the lines of "Give me X" would've given me back. …