I just changed careers from 100% remote for the last 6yrs, to 100% on-site, and it’s bittersweet. I’m really going to miss the freedom.

This is not a direct answer to your question.

I’ve heard 2 really great takes about LLMs & GenAI, that have stayed with me - though I don’t have the best wording for them anymore.

1. As AI is trained on previously created data, it fundamentally looks backwards. Human creativity creates new things and inherently looks to the future.

2. AI is trained on the vast corpus of human works and synthesizes that info into a median response. You will never get exciting and bold insights, just bland and inoffensive responses.

I thought this was wild, that no way it could have dropped THAT much: hell, I still search for things and didn’t rely on LLMs.

Then I remembered I switched my default engines to Duck Duck Go, and Startpage,