Nope. Any use case I have tried with it, I usually find that either a python script, database, book, or piece of paper can always accomplish the same job but usually with a better end result and with a more reliably reproducible outcome.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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Made a product search script that sorts eBay listings based on total per unit price (including shipping). Good for finding the cheapest multi-pack, lot, bundle, etc. by unit. Using Qwen 3 4B and feeding it a single listing at a time to parse.
Do you self host or use one of the Freeβ’ cloud services?
Self host. Just Ollama running on a machine without a GPU! I never said it was fast. :D
So you'll copy and paste the URL for an eBay listing and it'll go out and fetch the price and quantity and calculate unit price?
Close.. I'll download the HTML for an eBay search results page, and then a script splits it up into separate entries and feeds each listing's HTML chunk to the LLM. I don't bother with individual listing pages. (This falls down on some edge cases like listings that include multiple variants via a pull-down selection only found on the individual listing page. Maybe a future area of improvement.)
I've used llms to generate dialogue trees for a game and generate data with coordinates to describe the layout of the game world. in some ways it can replace procedural generation code.
Table top games?
video game
Pasting code and error messages in saves time in debugging stupid mistakes.
It's good at paraphrasing paragraphs to contain no 'fifth glyphs'
That's a big bound forward from last I was looking at it! Avoiding that nasty glyph was notably not in its portfolio of tricks. It would say it was avoiding the fifth, but still slip many through.
Assuming that this discussion is about LLMs, anyway.
I had to instruct it to consult a script to know how many words did contain fifth glyphs, but it did work with that.
Sounds as though your script did all important work, not your AI.
It was vital to call on my LLM, it couldn't do it on its own, and my script can just count glyphs, not anything to do with words.
I use a model in the app SherpaTTS to read articles from rssaggregator Feedme