All the cool people use VLC

Some things are just super obvious that even if we can, we should not

I use it for coding advice sometimes, as an amateur hobbyist it’s really useful to point me in the right direction when facing problems I’m unfamiliar with. I often end up reinventing the proverbial wheel, just worse, but LLMs can help point out standards and best practices that I, as an outsider to the industry, am unaware of.

Movie recommendations is my biggest thing, personally.

And lots of other purposes. Just because a ton of people are misusing this tool and treating it like GAI doesn’t mean that it isn’t a useful tool. Even something as simple as proofreading a letter has massive utility for some people.

Lets use LLMs for things LLMs are useful for. It is not a panacea, and it is not appropriate for every use case

Calorie free. Fat free. Sodium free, etc.

Just means that it has less than a specific threshold of the item per serving. And their servings are often arbitrarily small enough in order to conveniently miss that threshold

I’m looking at you, Tic Tacs

I wanted computing to be fun again. IMO XP was the last version of Windows that was actually fun

Companies tend to be rather picky about who gets to poke around inside their products

Once I buy it, it’s my product.

The language we use today is a bastardization of how language was. Every complaint you make about people using language wrong someone has made about the language you are using. And they complained first