Does it count if I’m not proud of my use of LLMs?

I just used gemini to make a mod for Total War, Warhammer 3, because the mod I wanted was not available anywhere. It had to have been the most annoying modding I have ever done. I thought it would save time, it ended up just being me telling the llm that it was making shit up 80% of the time. I finally got working code after what felt like 6 hours of supervising the dumbest programming intern on the floor. My take away, is that I could beg for code better next time, but it did not improve my own ability by much at all. In fairness it would have probably taken me the same amount of time or longer, but the integrity of the code would be higher. I have to believe Claude or GPT are better for this task.

I disclosed that I used AI to make the mod, and for the artwork. I feel like I put an unnecessary target on my back with the declaration considering like 99.999999% of the billion mods for this game are AI slop and AI assisted and do not make similar disclosures though AI use is obvious.

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Really? right in front of my Thanksgiving?

I never used an em dash in my life before AI made them a thing. I enjoy the jokes about AI can have my em dashes when it pries them from my cold dead… but I cannot relate. Ive only ever used the hyphen or en dash. I cannot figure out for the life of me if I have been missing anything.

“And while China’s getting there, an executive in the U.S. aren’t so convinced that’s true.”

Why does this sentence bother me so much?

I find myself only ever using AI for silly images to share with my partner and such anymore. It’s clearly not competent enough to be trusted the way average people have been relying on it. I switched to open weight local models and they honestly seem to work better than the large online models with proper prompting, and acting as a assisting tool rather than a creativity/skill replacer. Still have to double check everything it outputs if it is critical information.

That said, I wouldn’t be torn up in the slightest if it was gone right now.

Same. The amount of people smirking at me, and looking at me like Im crazy is hard to deal with. We finally felt like maybe it was time to unmask, and for a day or so it was going well, until I caught covid and gave it to my partner. It was absolutely terrible. We’re up to date on boosters, and it still took us down for a week with razor throat, coughing, headache, laziness. After the first week, we were still coughing for 2 weeks after. We are back to wearing masks. This disease would literally be over and done if everyone just vaccinated and wore masks for a few months. Instead they still want a way to kill grandma. I have a co-worker who is serially deathly ill because of her grandkids. This is just a terrible timeline.