Addicted to ChatGPT and LLMs

I am starting to get really addicted to ChatGPT, BlueWillow, and these LLMs.

This after getting a little burned out studying AI with many awesome courses over the years from Andrew Ng, Geoffrey Hinton, and Armando Galeana from Caltech's AI and Machine Learning Bootcamp.

I always felt you don't have to learn to be an automotive engineer to drive a car. But here I am. I was motivated to achieve perfect course scores for fear of leaving knowledge on the table. And yet, I never felt motivated to come out of retirement and start doing Data Science or AI professionally or compete in Kaggle competitions. I almost felt as if success would pigeon-hole me into some miserable, unhappy second career unable to spend time with family or take vacations. And yet, I'm now using LLMs constantly to help me polish my website content and create pictures appropriate for the pages.

It seems I am becoming a prompt engineer unwittingly, and I am enjoying it. I suppose if I get back into development again even as a side hustle for myself, I'll have a chat window open inside vscode all the time.

At first, I thought it would be like turning my brain off and taking a break while letting ChatGPT do all the work for me, but it isn't. It's more like doing photography rather than painting art. You still have to develop skills and do the work. But it's more like rebuilding an automobile engine with the right tools instead of trying to do it with your bare hands and no tools.

It makes work more efficient, effective, perhaps easier, more fun, and more productive. However, I also have to focus on examining the results for accuracy and quality. I also have to develop skills in wording my prompts well to obtain the best of the best results.