I do not trust AI to tell me about history, law, science or other topics where I cannot easily and quickly verify its outputs, as I generally have no idea about its inputs, nor about its parameters for analysis. But I do use it quite a bit to analyze bits of code and help me change and customize stuff.
For instance, I do not really know CSS, HTML, PHP, RegEx, twig, yaml, XML, etc.I'm not even particularly good with the Linux command line. But I can feed some code snippet to an AI, tell it what I want to accomplish, and have it analyze the snippet and give me suggested changes. I can then test the changes and verify the results.
I used this technique to #selfhost my NIP-05 address and avatar so I don't have to rely on a third-party service. Trivial tasks really, but useful for me.
My preferred AI for this type of work is currently perplexity.AI for two reasons:
- I don't have to login if I don't want to
- perplexity links to multiple sources for its reply so I can dig in further if needed