Ask HN: How are you using LLMs?

4 points | by WheelsAtLarge 12 hours ago ago

5 comments

  • extropian 12 hours ago

    Recently, I've been enjoying just talking and brainstorming with Claude. It feels almost like talking to a really smart friend, and that hasn't been replicated by any other model.

    It's a shame, because GPT-4o, despite being higher on the leaderboards should've been able to do the same, but it's not even close how robotic and LLM-esque(?) the conversations feel, compared to Claude.

  • keiferski 10 hours ago

    I use them the most time as a way to check for “unknown unknowns.” For example, I’ll tell it that I have an idea about X, and to tell me if there are any similar concepts in existence, books about similar concepts, what some flaws in this idea might be, and so on. Google used to be helpful for tasks like this but is increasingly unhelpful.

  • binary_slinger 12 hours ago

    Input: Full-text notes

    Output: outline of slides for ppt, using pandoc

  • morkalork 11 hours ago

    Recall aid. You can describe a thing, historical event, concepts, whatever in very broad terms and it'll narrow it down and figure out almost instantly compared to the black hole that is tossing completely wrong keywords into google and getting nowhere.

  • seccode 12 hours ago

    Contract law research