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.
LLMs are way more interesting when talking about coding rather than asking them to generate code. The code generation is janky but if you keep asking questions you might get new directions, learn about concepts you didn’t know etc … It’s great to learn tech stuff
Yeah it’s handy for pointing you in the right direction when you don’t know what you need.