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>>blueri+(OP)
It is refreshing to see I am not the only person who cannot get LLMs to say anything valuable. I have tried several times, but the cycle "You're right to question this. I actually didn't do anything you asked for. Here is some more garbage!" gets really old really fast.

It makes me wonder whether everyone else is kidding themselves, or if I'm just holding it wrong.

>>danlit+ag
Can you give some examples where it didn't work for you? I'm curious because I derive a lot of value from it and my guess is that we're trying very different things with it.

>>terhec+dj
Not OP, but here's one instance over which I already had an internet fistfight with a person swearing by LLMs[0], meaning it should serve as a decent example:

> Suppose I'm standing on Earth and suddenly gravity stopped affecting me. What would be my trajectory? Specifically what would be my distance from Earth over time?

https://chatgpt.com/c/682edff8-c540-8010-acaa-8d9b5c26733d

It gives the "small distance approximation" in the examples, even if I ask for the solution after two hours, which at 879km is already quite off the correct ~820km.

An approximation that is better in the order of seconds to hours is pretty simple:

  s(t) = sqrt((R^2 + (Vt)^2)) - R

And it's even plotted in the chart, but again - numbers are off.

[0] Their results were giving wildly incorrect numbers at less than 100 seconds already, which was what originally prompted me to respond - they didn't even match the formula.