My guess is the average person on LW should be spending around 10 hours a week trying to figure out how to automate themselves or other parts of their job using LLMs.
Yeah. I am nowhere near doing this systematically, but I noticed that whatever I am doing, it makes sense to ask “could I use an LLM to help me with this?” That includes even things like reading Reddit—now the LLM could read it for me, and just give me a summary. (I haven’t tried this yet.)
It is even worth revisiting the old (pre-LLM) question of “could I automate this using a shell/Python script?”, because LLM makes creating such scripts much cheaper.
Like, if in the past the balance was like “it takes me one hour to do it by hand, and it would also take nontrivial time to write the script, plus I might find out in the middle of it that the situation is more difficult than I thought and there are some exceptions, or I might end up exploring some rabbit hole… so all things considered it’s probably faster doing it by hand”, these days making the script sometimes only takes as much time as you need to verbally describe the intended functionality.
Yeah. I am nowhere near doing this systematically, but I noticed that whatever I am doing, it makes sense to ask “could I use an LLM to help me with this?” That includes even things like reading Reddit—now the LLM could read it for me, and just give me a summary. (I haven’t tried this yet.)
It is even worth revisiting the old (pre-LLM) question of “could I automate this using a shell/Python script?”, because LLM makes creating such scripts much cheaper.
Like, if in the past the balance was like “it takes me one hour to do it by hand, and it would also take nontrivial time to write the script, plus I might find out in the middle of it that the situation is more difficult than I thought and there are some exceptions, or I might end up exploring some rabbit hole… so all things considered it’s probably faster doing it by hand”, these days making the script sometimes only takes as much time as you need to verbally describe the intended functionality.