Well, one more comment like that and I guess I’m gonna have to edit my original comment, because I don’t want to explain again. I’m getting quite a lot out of LLMs (GPT-4, to be specific), it’s just that they’re very stupid. When they don’t straight up lie, they don’t know stuff. It’s quite simple, really, I usually deal with very complex problems that few people dealt with, the AI has (close to) no data on that, so it runs in circles and is not able to help.
But when presented with questions that it has training data on, it’s brilliant - recently I needed to use reflection to get all types implementing an interface in .NET with the caveat that the interface is generic. GPT-4 was able to solve that problem 3rd message in the conversation, while I’m pretty sure it would take me hours, because I’d need to learn a lot of .NET’s internal workings before arriving at the quite simple solution.
So, a good career advice - which one do you feel like it is? A simple question with a straight correct solution, or a complex and nuanced issue where there isn’t one general truth? Because the only correct answer to a request for career advice by someone who doesn’t know your situation extensively is (a version of) “I don’t know, what’s your situation in detail?”. Knowing GPT, it didn’t ask that question.
So yes, LLMs are great! Just learn which use-cases it excels at and don’t ask it for complex advice.