I use Perplexity pretty much every day. It actually gives me the answers I’m looking for, while the search engines just return blog spam and ads.
I had a professor tell our class straight up, use perplexity, just put it in your own own words.
Never
It varies. Sometimes several times a day, sometimes none for a week or two. I’d say about half of those conversations are about software design.
I’ve done it once or twice in the early days to see what was up, never since then.
It’s simple: I don’t.
Daily.
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I forgot how the conversation went, but one day, a conversation I had with someone about comprehensibility (which was often an issue) compelled me to talk to an AI, a talk which I remember from the fact the AI did now have such issues as the complaining humans had.
Yeah I’ve run into this a bit. People say it “doesn’t understand” things, but when I ask for a definition of “understand” I usually just get downvotes.
Once or twice a week
I’ve attempted to use it to program an android app.
2 weeks of effort… It’ll finally build without issue, but still won’t run.
The closest I come to chatting is asking github co-pilot to explain syntax when I’m learning a new language. I just needed to contribute a class library to an existing C# API, hadn’t done OOP in 15 years, and had never touched dotNet.
I mean, if asking to help with code/poorly explained JS libraries counts then… Pretty much every day. Other than that… very rarely.
Multiple times throughout the day. I co-work on personal projects with several different LLMs. Primarily Claude, but also GPT-4o and Llama 70b.
Maybe 3-4 times a year. Can’t see using it more than that at this point.
I’ve never tried to have what I would call a conversation, but I use it as a tool for both fixing/improving writing and for writing basic scripts in autohotkey, which it’s fairly good at.
It’s language models are good for removing the emotional work from customer service - either giving bad news in a very detached professional way or being polite and professional when what I want is to call someone a fartknocker.
