When you work with an LLM, it’s definitely doing a lot of the labor, and even some of the reasoning, but you’re still doing a lot of the thought yourself; before, after, and during.
I’m coming around to a similar view of reading and even conversation with people. A book is only as good as it’s reader, a conversation can only be transformative or illuminating for both participants if at least one of them puts in a lot of “work” in the form of both interpretation and how they present their replies to the other party.
There is this intuition that good conversation just “flows” effortlessly, but that’s not necessarily the same as a “important” or “illuminating” conversation, which would also be considered a good conversation.
When you work with an LLM, it’s definitely doing a lot of the labor, and even some of the reasoning, but you’re still doing a lot of the thought yourself; before, after, and during.
I’m coming around to a similar view of reading and even conversation with people. A book is only as good as it’s reader, a conversation can only be transformative or illuminating for both participants if at least one of them puts in a lot of “work” in the form of both interpretation and how they present their replies to the other party.
There is this intuition that good conversation just “flows” effortlessly, but that’s not necessarily the same as a “important” or “illuminating” conversation, which would also be considered a good conversation.