karimfDo your own writing
I agree with most of this, but my one qualm is the notion that LLMs "are particularly good at generating ideas."
It's fair enough that you can discard any bad ideas they generate. But by design, the recommendations will be average, bland, mainstream, and mostly devoid of nuance. I wouldn't encourage anyone to use LLMs to generate ideas if you're trying to create interesting or novel ideas.
I'm torn.
I sometimes use them when I'm stuck on something, trying to brainstorm. The ideas are always garbage, but sometimes there is a hint of something in one of them that gets me started in a good direction.
Sometimes, though, I feel MORE stuck after seeing a wall of bad ideas. I don't know how to weigh this. I wasn't making progress to begin with, so does "more stuck" even make sense?
I guess I must feel it's slightly useful overall as I still do it.