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Perhaps we can add that using LLMs for logical, creative or reasoning tasks (things the technology isn’t capable of doing) is an anti-pattern.

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I use LLMs as a sounding board for logical, creative or reasoning tasks all the time as it can provide different points of view that make ME think about a problem differently.

In my experience, LLMs work pretty nicely as rubber ducks, for logical, creative or reasoning tasks. They'll make lots of mistakes, but if you know the field, they are often (not always, though) easy to detect and brush off.

Whether that's worth the environmental or social cost, of course, remains open for debate.

I use LLMs for those purposes all the time and they seems to work for me.

What would be examples of tasks of that type? I hate hype as much as the next guy, but frankly I don't think you can support that assertion.

It is at the very least an anti-pattern in the same way hiring an assistant to do the work for you is an anti-pattern

I agree, moving into management is definitely an anti-pattern.

> reasoning tasks

Please provide a definition of reasoning.

Reasoning is the manipulation and transformation of symbols (i.e. stand-ins for real objects) by well-defined rules, often with the object of finding equivalences or other classes of relationships between seemingly unrelated things.

For example, logical reasoning is applying common logical transformations to propositions to determine the truth relationship between different statements. Spatial reasoning is applying spatial transformations (rotation, translation, sometimes slight deformation) to shapes to determine their spatial relationship, such "can I fit this couch through that doorway if I rotate it in some way?"

Reasoning has the property that a valid reasoning applied to true data always produces a correct answer.

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