Journalists using LLMs to turn bullet points into a full article
Readers using LLMs to summarize a full article into a series of bullet points
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My company is experimenting with using LLMs for yearly reviews and it works just like this. We feed in some bullet points of accomplishments and hope the LLM doesn’t fuck it up. Then the manager gets a condensed version down from the summaries.
Like why bother have the llm in the middle? Can’t I just send data?
Like why bother have the llm in the middle?
To attempt to abstract away actual responsibility for the manager's decisions
Some of the bullet points are outright wrong.
Some of the bullet points are misleading.
The reader would have been better off with the initial list.
Yes, but then how would the journalist keep up the appearance of being a serious intellectual who writes in long form?
Like, I unironically would love that, but it's culturally difficult right now.
Is there anything that generates half-way decent UIs? All I‘ve used was pretty much trash.
humans, sometimes
Eh, it's hit or miss in my experience.
It's all trash
Qwen3 Coder 480B actually gave me some pretty impressive results.
I once asked Canva to make me a UI and got candid pictures of people in parties and such. It was so left field and unrelated to what I asked that it caught me off guard.
Figma balls
I honestly don't know how anyone on my team keeps a straight face when they mention it.
As a FE focused eng with too much industry experience, I refuse to touch any UI that was generated by AI. That sounds like a nightmare. Hell, I refuse to touch any UI that was generated by fucking DreamWeaver.
One of the hardest challenges in large scale UIs is keeping everything organized and modular. It's way too easy to write event dependent spaghetti code.
As always AI is ok for doing tiny little things with no dependencies and no plan to use/maintain the thing for a long time. Basically a functional prototype.
Beyond that it's useless. As you said, more spaghetti than in an italian restaurant.
Oh, and never ask an AI to fix the bugs it made. It always fails with that.