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haha that’s nice. yeah context curation is hard

"but whose actual abilities are not that clear" Brilliant! I remember first looking at chatgpt in awe as if it were aliens who knew everything. Then later feeling like it was utterly useless and a time waste due to endless hallucinations. Now slowly discovering what it can really do.

The combination of human and alien properties is neat. Ethan says: "Two parts of this are analogous to working with humans (being new on the job and being a coworker) and two of them are very alien (forgetting everything and being infinitely patient)."

I've been very resistant to those in the past, but I've come round to it now Learning to use LLMs really is a whole lot easier if you apply "person" metaphors to them I trust people to figure out that they're not sci-fi AI entities once they really start digging in and using them

I like it. I still can't get over how unintuitive it is whether a general LLM will one-shot your prompt, and this is a better way to think about it

Seems like an apt description. 👌