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Idk if its about to burst,I find llm-s quite helpful. Agree about the rest, though
What do you find them helpful for?
Summarizing or analyzing longer texts. For example, I struggle with attention when listening to an audiobook, so I let it summarize the chapter for me so I get caught up better. Translating words or sentences between languages, its much better than deepl/Google translate etc at it. Also translating subtitles, can translate whole episodes within minutes these days. They have helped me out from a few tight spots with coding and scripts as well at work.
Like cases where I'd normally spend hours troubleshooting and googling because its above my paygrade, I can solve the problems much easier with an LLM. Its still just a tool though.
Drafting emails and cleaning them up. Summarizing PDF's Assisting with more complex math or engineering concepts to at least give me some ideas of where I can start looking (i.e. like wiki, but faster). Materials analysis - I can feed it a spectrograph, and it can output several AISI or AMS specification numbers to look at. Cleaning up papers or reports that I've written. Helped with Resume. It's extremely helpful. It's a great starting point on a lot of things.