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[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The LLM responses are more verbose but not a crazy amount so. It’s mostly adding polite social padding that some people appreciate.

As for time totally. It’s faster to write “can’t go to meeting, suggest rescheduling it for Thursday.” And proofread than to write a full boomer style letter.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like we might write at very different WPMs. For me, proofreading and fixing AI slop takes longer than just writing things myself.

And another difference might be that to me and everyone I work with, writing in full on "boomer" is considered an insulting waste of everyone's time.

Which it is.

[–] mholiv@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

It’s a waste of everyone’s time for sure. It’s just good business sense to make your customers happy though.

As for typing speed perhaps ya lol. You could be faster. But I think the best approach here is using high quality locally run LLMs that don’t produce slop. For me I can count on one hand how many times I’ve had to correct things in the past month. It’s a mater of understanding how LLMs work and fine tuning. (Emphasis on the fine tuning)