I use AI to help me write. I also use it to help me code. I wrote about that last week. This post is the other side. The part I do not say as much about. The LLM is always confident. Whether the answer is right, half right, or completely made up, it usually comes out the same. Same tone, same formatting, same "here you go" energy. That is the trap. Not that the LLM is bad. The trap is that it does not know when it does not know, and neither do you, until something breaks. Two kinds of "I do not know" There is a difference between these two situations: I know the topic. I use the LLM to draft, to format, to skip the typing. I am the source of truth. The LLM is a faster pen. I do not know the topic. I use the LLM to learn, to summarise, to answer. The LLM is my only source of truth. Case 1 is fine. Case 1 is what I wrote about in the "I use AI to write" post. The risk in case 1 is small. If the draft is wrong, I can tell, because I...
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