Once every few months
About as often as I have a conversation with my dishwasher: never.
Jeez…how do you think your dishwasher feels about that? Monster!!
I mean, if asking to help with code/poorly explained JS libraries counts then… Pretty much every day. Other than that… very rarely.
Maybe 1-3 times a day. I find that the newest version of ChatGPT (4o) typically returns answers that are faster and better quality than a search engine inquiry, especially for inquiries that have a bit more conceptualization required or are more bespoke (i.e give me recipes to use up these 3 ingredients etc) so it has replaced search engines for me in those cases.
If by conversation you mean asking for a word by describing it conceptually because I can’t remember, every day. If you mean telling it about my day and hobbies, never.
That is basically the best use of LLMs.
A few of the most useful conversations I’ve had with ChatGPT:
I use Perplexity pretty much every day. It actually gives me the answers I’m looking for, while the search engines just return blog spam and ads.
I had a professor tell our class straight up, use perplexity, just put it in your own own words.
It varies. Sometimes several times a day, sometimes none for a week or two. I’d say about half of those conversations are about software design.
It’s simple: I don’t.
I don’t unless a website requires that I talk to one as a poor excuse for customer service.
So, less than once a year.
I just type “Speak to a human” until it relents. Usually takes 3-4 times. Kind of the chatbot equivalent of mashing 0 on telephone IVRs. The only question of its that I answer, after it agrees to get a human, is when it asks what I need support with since that gets forwarded to the tech.
I ask additional questions or provide information from my side to get a better answer, but I’m still doing this to solve a problem or gather knowledge. I guess that counts as a conversation, but not a casual one.
Never
Daily.
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I’ve done it once or twice in the early days to see what was up, never since then.
The closest I come to chatting is asking github co-pilot to explain syntax when I’m learning a new language. I just needed to contribute a class library to an existing C# API, hadn’t done OOP in 15 years, and had never touched dotNet.
Maybe 3-4 times a year. Can’t see using it more than that at this point.
