I'm not sure what/how to talk about this, but LLMs really are just wild. This isn't an April fools post, I've been busy and just haven't had time to really think through what to talk about here.
Lets get into it. I use LLMs for a lot of stuff and it's been integrating into my family too, so I guess let's see.
1. While at dinner my kiddo asked if we could use ChatGPT for trivia on Dogman.
2. My son wanted some fraction division practice. He started asking ChatGPT for an app to do this.
3. I have a friend who wanted to make a sticker based on a badge. Used LLMs to make a basic webpages to upload a image (badge) and it did some segmentation. (Not amazing but worked).
4. I had another friend ask how to host webapps these days. My first reaction was oh I use this (flask) and ChatGPT will make all the code for you. (There were more questions/opinions but that was the main thing).
5. I realized when someone asks me a question.....I think my first reaction from now on should/will be, ask ChatGPT (this is kinda like let me Google that for you) to check my assumptions. However I noted, we lose conversation when questions go to (Google or ChatGPT or whatever). Like we talked for a bit about what he was up to, and I wonder if we wouldnt have that convo if he went straight to Google/ChatGPT. I went to ChatGPT and asked the question, it suggested various servers, including the one I suggested but it also gave me other names I might check out just to see what they are (so kinda a cool way to learn about tech you maybe haven't heard of before).
6. How to handle difficult situations. Strategies for how to handle yourself in them, it was a conversation I was able to have with someone on what to do.
7. Help upgrading jellyfin server.
8. Ideas on "jobs" for a kid that replace the classic paper route (I had a paper route growing up and wondered what today's 'paper route' is). Reselling was a big one in the list. Etsy was one item which I kinda liked. I might setup an acct and try to get something rolling for my kiddos to sell something on Etsy.
9. Update my QR code generator page (internal page) to give the option of text message qr code format.
10. Tips on being an adult. I am often wondering how people approach household management, paperwork management etc.
11. Prepping for a sports tournament what things should I bring, how to prep etc.
12. I came across a photography technique I think called jitter photography and I wondered what/how many other cool techniques exist, so there was a long interaction where I was asking for more ideas, this was fun and I came across a few new techniques I would like to try.
13. Update my loan-optimizer.com page, the navigation was broken so I fixed that with ChatGPT.
Lotta different and interesting usages. I have found (personally), with at least the default ChatGPT I tend to go Google a topic if I'm having questions about a topic, so I get ideas of things to look up in chat then go look them up on the web. I don't like to stay 100% in the chat, but I do use it for idea/direction of research generation.
I of course like using it for help with any programming when it makes sense.
