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I had GPT 3.5 break down 6x 45-minute verbatim interviews into bulleted summaries and it did great. I even asked it to anonymize people’s names and it did that too. I did re-read the summaries to make sure no duplicate info or hallucinations existed and it only needed a couple of corrections.

Beats manually summarizing that info myself.

Maybe their prompt sucks?

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“Are you sure you’re holding it correctly?”

christ, every damn time

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That is how tools tend to work, yes.

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“tools” doesn’t mean “good”

good tools are designed well enough so it’s clear how they are used, held, or what-fucking-ever.

fuck these simpleton takes are a pain in the arse. They’re always pushed by these idiots that have based their whole world view on fortune cookie aphorisms

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we find they tend to post here, though not for long

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Said like a person who wouldn’t be able to correctly hold a hammer on first try

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I got AcausalRobotGPT to summarise your post and it said “I’m not saying it’s always programming.dev, but”

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@RagnarokOnline @dgerard “They failed to say the magic spells correctly”

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Did you conduct or read all the interviews in full in order to verify no hallucinations?

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How did you make sure no hallucinations existed without reading the source material; and if you read the source material, what did using an LLM save you?

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I also use it for that pretty often. I always double check and usually it’s pretty good. Once in a great while it turns the summary into a complete shitshow but I always catch it on a reread, ask a second time, and it fixes things up. My biggest problem is that I’m dragged into too many useless meetings every week and this saves a ton of time over rereading entire transcripts and doing a poor job of summarizing because I have real work to get back to.

I also use it as a rubber duck. It works pretty well if you tell it what it’s doing and tell it to ask questions.

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Isn’t the whole point of rubber duck debugging that the method works when talking to a literal rubber duck?

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what if your rubber duck released just an entire fuckton of CO2 into the environment constantly, even when you weren’t talking to it? surely that means it’s better

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