In Which I Embrace our Mechanical Overlords

For a long time, I didn't really use LLMs. I think GPT 4 came out right before I graduated high school, and I played around with it for a little. I had it write a silly poem for an English class — I think it involved Jordan Peterson making moonshine. But, so far as I could tell, everything it produced was very shitty. Sometimes amusingly shitty, but shitty nonetheless. It was an interesting toy, but it had no practical value. This remained my impression of LLMs for the next few years. And I grew to hate the ChatGPT Customer - Service Voice, which I encountered more and more on the internet. But, recently, a friend let me play around with her Opus, and I realized it was really useful. I was curious enough to fork 20 bucks over to Anthropic, so I've been using it for the past month. And I mostly like it! Opus knows chemistry much better than I do, and it can make me a lot of practice problems. And, it can usually answer my questions pretty well. It's not as good as a human tutor, but…