ChatGPT Plus and Github Copilot…but less every day. They just don’t keep up enough with current APIs and are often confused and unable to actually provide useful solutions.
I mostly use ChatGPT Plus as a Google replacement nowadays. And Copilot as a, sadly, mostly useless autocomplete.
I’ve recently started using Claude Opus which i prefer for coding and maybe in general. Apart from the crappy message limit and lack of stop and edit buttons. I think it might stick with it and cancel gpt.
In general i use Ai to help with my job of general it guy, marker, admin, data entry etc. i use it to proof read, to get ideas, to transform data, to code it or to comment code, translate, transcribe, to bug fix. I always feel i could be making better use of it in my day but it is transformative for the stuff it does.
For the API I’m using a workflow for Alfred on Mac that allows me really quick key presses access to prompts and questions on selected text. I love it.
I've been using Google's Gemini to write cover letters for job applications. Just plug in the job description, do a little proofreading and tweaking, and boom. It's made the process so much easier for "personalized" cover letters.
I use Perplexity or the Google one formerly known as Bard for when I want specific information but I don’t want to do multiple searches plus reading several sites to find the answer.
I use Bing to generate pictures to entertain myself. Sometimes I post them.
I use chatGPT as a diary. Whenever I feel down or frustrated with feelings I can’t quite describe, or just insecure, I start a session and just pour out my heart. I complain, yammer on and on about what’s bothering me, and just say whatever comes to mind. Basically all the stuff I would never bother a friend or loved one with because I know it’ll come across as needy and I don’t want to push this on them.
And all it does is give positive and supportive comments, ask some follow-up questions, maybe make an attempt at giving a helpful suggestion. I know what I’m talking with, I am under no illusions that this is anything but a big mathematical model, but it helps me get through some difficult emotions by just letting it all out. There’s no judgement and that’s kind of nice. I could just write a journal, but the interaction and positive feedback adds a little motivation for me. And of course it goes without saying that I keep names and other personal details to myself :)
Oh and I use it for some cloud architecture problems, some coding and other tech stuff. But that’s not very interesting.
Also, if you use ChatGPT and haven’t done so, be sure to use their privacy page and opt-out of having your chats used for model training. privacy.openai.com/policies?modal=take-control
Not sure for US, but it works for EU citizens.
I don’t unless I am trying to make my code more efficient, or want know how to do simple programming task or get some additional info on something I don’t really understand.
I've been doing some visual character stuff for my fictional story!
It's nice to actually see some characters visually for the story - it adds to the motivation to work on it 😁
I’ve got a local LLM set up for code suggestions and run GitHub copilot for spots where the local isn’t good enough. I can start writing out a thought and pseudo implementation and have a mostly viable real implementation instantly which I can then modify to suit my needs. It also takes a lot of the busywork out of things that need boilerplate. The local is trained on the style of my repos so I can keep up with style standards too which is helpful. Also great for explaining legacy code and coming up with more semantic variable names in old code too.
I was using mixtral but I’m recently testing out the new llama 3 models, decent improvement and hopefully we’ll see some good fine tuned models of it soon
I use Kagi, they provide access to all the main models in a chat interface and have a mode that feeds search engine results to them. It’s mostly replaced search engines for me. For programming work I find them very useful for using unfamiliar tools and libraries, I can ask it what I want to so and it’ll generally tell me how correctly. Importantly, the search engine mode has citations. $25 a month, but worth it.
Mainly as a search engine replacement, finding docs or information without getting terrible search results. Also for recipes, it’s really good at recipes.
GPT 4 though, 3.5 is about as sharp as a bag of wet mice.
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