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0 pointsdodu_5h ago0 comments

Ah yes, take my single sentence, blow it up to 3 paragraphs with LLMs, and then the person reading it can have an LLM summarize it in a single sentence.

What the fuck are we even doing anymore?

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ua7095h ago

I wonder if that even works. Kinda like when kids play telephone I think it’s unlikely the input and output sentences actually match.

anon848736284h ago

The thing is, eventually these products will be more integrated into business workflows and have access to all the context, so the three paragraph expansion probably will be a significant improvement upon the original input.

And either that person won't be employed anymore, of the thing they were asking for in the first place will be automated for them.

I've already got my agent building a dossier for everyone we interact with. I haven't started training it on their writing style so I can mirror back to them... yet.

BlackFly4h ago

As these products improve, one person sending the output and not the prompt will remain useless. The prompt captures the intent and level of real consideration of the person sending it, the receiver can augment that with additional information if they want to.

watwut1h ago

Currently they are inferior.

dijksterhuis1h ago

> I've already got my agent building a dossier for everyone we interact with. I haven't started training it on their writing style so I can mirror back to them... yet.

have you asked these people how they feel about this? have you asked them for permission, for their consent to do this with their communications to you?

what you’re doing sounds incredibly creepy. like, meta/facebook kinda of creepy. granted, it’s at a more limited scale, but it’s still creepy af dude.

fwiw, if i was your colleague and you asked me how i felt about you doing this with me, i’d be seeing about getting HR involved.

philipswood4h ago

He's describing a 4 step process:

1) >I simply run it through an LLM,

2) >paste the summary,

3) >and ask them "Is this an accurate summary?"

4) >and then I ask the for their original prompt.

Agreed that just step 1 or step 1 and 2 would be depressingly pointless, but step 3 and 4 make this the equivalent of sending someone a let-me-google-that-for-you kind of link, does it not?

Caught out like this I imagine many people will kind of get the fact that you'd rather have their direct inputs..

(Or just get mad at you, but that's fair I guess)

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