LLMs are a touchy topic, in particular on Mastodon. My approach to it is "LLMs are the result of technology *and* ideology. I'd like to understand the impact of both".

What is the psychological effect of using LLMs? What are epistemological processes that can be used, and how can an LLM be assessed if ideation and vetting ideas is the target?

The first thing, of course, is critical thinking skills of the user. Using an LLM for ideation without competence is like using LLMs for "Vibe Coding" - but as you don't "own" the architecture you won't be able to take any kind of responsibility for it. Users that apply a strict conservative Software Engineering approach can do much more, and they can take responsibility for the usefulness of the resulting software.

For ideation it's the same: if you can construct the idea in its context it's easy to use the LLM to help with formalization. If you have no clue you better only prompt for things that don't matter at all.

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