srinathkrishna

As a generalist software engineer, my first instinct to solve problems (day-to-day stuff like making my life better with productivity tools and the like) using conventional software engineering techniques using a typical programming language. However, with the rise of AI tools/APIs, there are other ways to solve these problems by leveraging these.

How does one go about learning this muscle? If this is something that will build over time in your brain, any means to fast track this by reading through application whitepapers/inner workings of tools etc.?

With the recent OpenAI dev day, I see the scope for Generative AI and LLMs exploding manifold and this pace of innovation is here to stay.

While I did spend a while playin with ChatGPT when it came out, lately I haven't spent much time with it. I was wondering how people used this for making their personal lives better. I do use an LLM at work for simplifying queries and Copilot to help me code but largely these are confined to work.

I'm looking for inspiration around things like making you tell better stories to your kids, or keeping track of your expenses in a more seamless way, helps you organize digital materials you have, help with learning and digesting material faster, keeping up with friends ... bringing order into the chaos that is life! :)