Turns out that LLM summaries are actually useful.
Not for *summarizing* text -- they're horrible for that. They're weighted statistical models and by their very nature they'll drop the least common or most unusual bits of things. Y'know, the parts of a message that are actually important.
No, where they're great is as a writing check. If an LLM summary of your work is accurate that indicates what you wrote doesn't really have much interesting information in it and maybe you should try harder.
@wordshaper My rule of thumb: if a piece of writing is useless bullshit, then an LLM can *definitely* do it.
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@wordshaper @Walrus word!! I have a standard prompt that I use. It gives great results.