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Showerthoughts
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
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Useful if you understand how they work and what they are good at
They're very useful, but just for certain things. The problem is that every corpo idiot out there thinks they're useful for everything, which they're most certainly not.
They're ok, just pretty limited in what they can do. Doesn't help i also have to fact check them.
My use cases thus far have been pretty minimal. Stuff like OCR extraction of tables from images (which were possible before LLM's), very occasional reformatting of lists and stuff, some of the built in summarization features which provide tiny value. I've never actually used them to write something for me. The one time I considered it I found something better already written.