Warming up to LLMs

Outside of all the hype created by the techbros selling their AI products, there is a usefulness to the LLMs. I personally use Copilot whenever I need to. It’s free and uses ChatGPT in the backend. I don’t have high usage for the product, I am not using it as a coding companion or something. So it works.

I asked Copilot to help me redesign or rather create the page for a year of mornings, my first book here on Ghost.

I gave it a prompt, it generated some HTML and CSS that I added on the page and the footer (through code injection). It looked OK, not great.

Then I went on my walk. While walking I thought about what I want from this page. What should it look like.

After I came back, I gave Copilot another detailed prompt about what I want. It spat out some more HTML and CSS. I added that and was almost there, with regard to what I wanted from the page.

The final prompt I gave it was to make it pretty. It failed at that. But I think it was my failure at promoting it properly.

With these LLMs, the more data you give them, with detailed steps, examples, and output formats, etc, i.e. the more context, the better the results are.

In fact, I liked the results so much that I felt I could finally maybe start work on creating that static website I’ve dreamed of since long.