It’s unfortunate because it does make people very mad about when it’s used even legitimately. I am not a programmer, I am a system administrator, and I run a local model. And don’t worry, I have full off-grid solar too, so I’m not increasing energy demand. That aside, it is incredibly useful for helping me save time and brain space on documentation.

especially these days where documentation is scattered, fragmented, might not even be available other than on like Discord or something stupid, being able to have my local model, which has the ability to search the web, be able to just pull up documentation where I already pretty much know the process at a high view just need the finer details brought to the front of my brain. so I will know if it’s making shit up or bullshitting me easily, this is incredibly useful and saves so much time.

especially when you’re dealing with like setting up a bunch of different security through things like apparmor, namespaces, LXC, seccomp etc. It’s just so much to keeping your brain at once. Its easy to have enough in there to know whether the answer it’s giving you is correct or wrong and its great at then taking your step-by-step process and formatting it nicely for something like a wiki.js instance which makes documentation take no time at all so I actually do it so that in the future when I need this again I can just go to my documentation that is now actually completed.

But people using it for code generation or art generation have made the whole thing so controversial that it’s difficult to use it for its actual best case, which is basically just a really good documentation search engine.