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Here are some of mine:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I have a large corpus in which I want to find the most frequently occurring facts. I’ve built a system that (i) attempts to extract the facts from items in the corpus, (ii) generates their embeddings, and (iii) runs a clustering algorithm over the result to estimate which of the extracted facts should count as the same.<\/li>\n<li>I’m keeping all important school-related documents in a Claude project. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natemeyvis.com\/civic-applications-of-generative-ai\/\">reliable enough<\/a> at extracting and interpreting practical information that I can ask it to, e.g., update my personal calendar with all the relevant dates.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of “now good enough at juggling nontrivial real-world information,” I’m finding it not only amusing but actually worthwhile to ask an email- and calendar-connected LLM something like “please find all the information related to my trip to X<\/em> next week and make sure everything seems on track.”<\/li>\n<li>I’m now reliant on using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zippyflash.com\/\">Zippyflash<\/a> API via LLM for (i) allowing me to do some of my flashcard reviews with pen and paper (by asking it to generate PDFs of paper-friendly due cards and then asking it to grade my work, confirming any nontrivial right-wrong decisions with me), (ii) allowing me to customize my study sessions in ad hoc<\/em> ways that would be very hard to anticipate in advance, and (iii) allowing me to reschedule low-priority cards in smart ways when I run up a backlog.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nSome patterns, here and in my other recent AI usage:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There’s a shape of task that prompts a “OK, I need to gather a bunch of mostly-unstructured real-world data and check stuff” reaction. (The school- and trip-information cases are like this.) AI has graduated from “can see the data and be sort of useful” to “can reliably handle these tasks, though I double-check the important stuff.” This is a huge step up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natemeyvis.com\/try-the-very-fast-models\/\">Cheaper, faster models<\/a> are good enough that I don’t feel much friction when I find a question that might be addressable with AI. (The fact-extraction example is one of several like this.) There’s a big difference, for me at least, between spending three hours and $50 on something and spending 30 minutes (of active time) and $5 on it.<\/li>\n<li>I also find myself deferring some interesting, low-urgency projects in anticipation of their being much cheaper a few months from now. This involves both prioritization and also some guesswork about which kinds of tasks AI will improve at the most.<\/li>\n<li>I don’t<\/em> find it much better, compared to a few months ago, with questions like “what books should be on my list but aren’t?” and other high-judgment lifestyle questions. As AI gets vastly better at the basic triage and annoying, lower-judgment data management that I imagine a personal assistant might do, it’s nowhere near replacing the highest-judgment aspects of a PA’s job. 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