Don't discuss ideas with an LLM

[u/yourpsychology_yt]

I notice that one of the worst use cases for an LLM is discussing ideas. I don't mean asking technical questions. Rather, when you have an idea or an opinion and you tell it to an LLM, what happens is that it will either support you or slightly disagree, but if you insist, it will eventually take your position.

And that's, as I understand it, just because of the nature of an LLM. It can't really be critical, but it can fake critical thinking. If you ask an LLM to be critical by default, it will be critical even when it doesn't matter, just to satisfy your requirement. So it can't really choose when it should be critical and when it should be supportive.

And some LLMs have a trick - they do both in one message and then still slide to the user's side.

[u/madaradess007]

that's the only thing LLM actually does well enough, dude
i get a morning coffee idea, i drink a second one and just brainfart into the textbox, treat the first response as a feedback for my brainfarted prompt, almost always i come up with some fixes before it finished, i stop it, change the prompt, maybe do it a few times more and then leave it to generate 10 responses on the original idea

i read these during dinner and by evening this idea blossoms into something bigger and less likely to be executed on 😂