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If you're using the thing to write your work emails, you're probably so bad at your job that you won't last anyway. Being able to write a clear, effective message is not a skill, it's a basic function like walking. Asking a machine to do it for you just hurts yourself more than anything.

That said, it can be very useful for coding, for analyzing large contracts and agreements and providing summaries of huge datasets, it can help in designing slide shows when you have to do weekly power-points and other small-scale tasks that make your day go faster.

I find it hilarious how many people try to make the thing do ALL their work for them and end up looking like idiots as it blows up in their face.

See, LLM's will never be smarter than you personally, they are tools for amplifying your own cognition and abilities, but few people use them that way, most people think it's already alive and can make meaning for them. It's not, it's a mirror. You wouldn't put a hand-mirror on your work chair and leave it to finish out your day.