Here’s your start-of-the-year reminder that you don’t have to accept your LLM’s answers as gospel. In fact, you do what I do — talk back to them Samuel L. Jackson / Nick Fury from The Avengers-style.
The screenshot above comes from an exchange I had with Gemini earlier today. I like using LLMs as a sounding board for ideas — as I like to say “the one thing you can’t do, no matter how creative or clever you are, is come up with ideas you’d never think of.”
Gemini suggested a course of action that I completely disagreed with, so I decided to respond with one of my favorite lines from the first Avengers film, and it responded with “touché.” Keep thinking, and don’t completely outsource your brain to AI!
And just as a treat, here’s that scene from The Avengers: