Yeah, that’s fair. I haven’t jumped into the whole agentic side of things as I find LLMs consistently fail at lower level stuff.
Everyone says it’s great at prototyping or writing documents, etc, but I think that’s just cause people have low standards. When coding I find that it quickly messes things up or lacks good quality control (which you only notice if you’re familiar with the domain). For writing it’s fine, but the tone and language always feels off and certainly doesn’t sound like me.
Either way, I would suggest playing around with them to see how they fit into how you do things. I think we’re starting to see things finally slow down on new implementations, and they aren’t going away, so it may be a good time to see if all the fuss is worth it to you.
Poik@pawb.social 6 days ago
The best uses I’ve seen are blind person aides. Scene understanding and OCR for disability aides. The OCR doesn’t have to be LLMs, but a system that combines the two effectively is useful.
There is merit to sitting an LLM in front of an expert system to act as an intermediate, but the LLM shouldn’t be doing any “thinking.” It should only translate results.