Simon Willison

I ask it to look for logical inconsistencies or, you know, points that I made and can go back to and that is great for, but it's another one of those things where it's all about the prompting. You have to, it's quite difficult to come up with a really good prompt for the proofreading that it does. I'd love to see more people share their proofreading prompts that work.

I ask it to look for logical inconsistencies or, you know, points that I made and can go back to and that is great for, but it's another one of those things where it's all about the prompting. You have to, it's quite difficult to come up with a really good prompt for the proofreading that it does. I'd love to see more people share their proofreading prompts that work.

I love that thing. Yeah.

I love that thing. Yeah.

I'll use that for proofreading. Yeah, I dumped my blog entries into that and I'm like, hey, do a podcast about this. And then you can tell which bits of the message came through. And that's kind of interesting. The other thing that's fun about that is you can give it custom instructions. So I say things like, you're banana slugs. Read this essay.

I'll use that for proofreading. Yeah, I dumped my blog entries into that and I'm like, hey, do a podcast about this. And then you can tell which bits of the message came through. And that's kind of interesting. The other thing that's fun about that is you can give it custom instructions. So I say things like, you're banana slugs. Read this essay.

And they discuss it from the perspective of banana slugs and how it will affect your society. And they just go all in. And it is pricelessly funny.

And they discuss it from the perspective of banana slugs and how it will affect your society. And they just go all in. And it is pricelessly funny.

My ultimate utopian version of this is it means that regular human beings can automate things in their lives with computers, which they can't do right now. Blowing that open feels like such an absolute win for our species. And we're most of the way there. We need to figure out what the tools and UIs on top of LLMs look like that let regular human beings automate things in their lives.

My ultimate utopian version of this is it means that regular human beings can automate things in their lives with computers, which they can't do right now. Blowing that open feels like such an absolute win for our species. And we're most of the way there. We need to figure out what the tools and UIs on top of LLMs look like that let regular human beings automate things in their lives.

We're going to crack that, and it's going to be fantastic.

We're going to crack that, and it's going to be fantastic.

I use FFmpeg. I use FFmpeg multiple times. Oh, God, yeah.

I use FFmpeg. I use FFmpeg multiple times. Oh, God, yeah.

Excellent. Thanks for having me. This has been really fun. All right. Thanks, everyone. Happy New Year.

Excellent. Thanks for having me. This has been really fun. All right. Thanks, everyone. Happy New Year.