I think coding is one of the areas where LLMs are most useful for private individuals at this point in time.

It’s not yet at the point where you just give it a prompt and it spits out flawless code.

For someone like me that are decent with computers but have little to no coding experience it’s an absolutely amazing tool/teacher.

What situations are you thinking of that requires reasoning?

I’ve used LLMs to create software i needed but couldn’t find online.

Exactly. The naming of the technology would make you assume it’s intelligent. It’s not.

This is a bad example… If I ask a friend "is strawberry spelled with one or two r’s"they would think I’m asking about the last part of the word.

The question seems to be specifically made to trip up LLMs. I’ve never heard anyone ask how many of a certain letter is in a word. I’ve heard people ask how you spell a word and if it’s with one or two of a specific letter though.

If you think of LLMs as something with actual intelligence you’re going to be very unimpressed… It’s just a model to predict the next word.

I don’t know enough to be able to say how easy it is to take over, but having been done by a single person could mean that no one else has the skills or the interest to do it, or maybe to do it as well as the original person.

I can definitely see why it could make a Linux user worried.

That’s not obvious at all…

Maybe it is to people who are really deep into the Linux world but generally if there’s only a single person in the world doing something, it’s never obvious that someone else will start to do that if the first person stops.