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Andrew Marder

My AI Usage

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This page discusses how I use AI.

I like using AI to write code. Writing code can be tedious. Most of the time I think using AI assistance saves me time when writing code (research). Sometimes I think AI assistance can be a time sink (more research). I use Cursor to help write my code. Right now I’m using “Auto” mode so I’m not always sure what LLM I’m using to write the code. There is a spectrum of code I write. For work I am very careful about the code I write. For play I am much less careful. This blog is about having fun, there will be messy code written by AI, the goal here is to have fun and try to do very little work.

I think of LLMs as plagiarism machines. They’ve read a ton of content, they spew out words based on that content, and they do a horrible job citing their sources. I care about citing my sources, and I confess to using LLMs to help me write some posts on this blog. As a band-aid to this problem I am going to tag all the posts that I used LLM help on to be “LLaMe”. My objective will be to minimize the number of posts with the “LLaMe” tag. I will move to acknowledging how LLMs contributed to each post. For instance, I plan to use LLMs to help proofread my posts to minimize typos and improve my writing.

Here are some references that helped inspire this page:

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