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    18 hours ago

    I use it to put together study guides so that, instead of spending a bunch of time typing and formatting, I’m spending it studying. It’s fed directly from my notes and slides and it rarely gets anything wrong (I read through it twice and cross reference with my notes). If anything, I’m usually removing stuff for being unnecessary or rewording things here and there to be.bstter suited to me. What took several hours now takes 30-45 minutes

    Don’t take this as a defense of AI, it definitely isn’t. If AI disappeared tomorrow the world would be better off. Formatting study guides are literally the only utility I’ve found in LLMs

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        16 hours ago

        Tell that to my 3.9 GPA lol. I’m not learning from slop, I’m using a program to format my notes and slides from my lectures, and then verifying that information before committing it to memory

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          15 hours ago

          Man have I got a solution for you, check out this formatted method to accomplish the same task:

          I’m using a program to format my notes and slides from my lectures, and then verifying that information before committing it to memory

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            15 hours ago

            My deepest apologies, sir. You’re clearly a man of deep intellect and wisdom beyond your years! You obviously know how I should do things and I’d be a buffoon not to follow your sagely demands. How silly was I, a lowly working full time student, to doubt you! I’ll get to grinding out those study materials by hand in what precious little free time I have immediately! Executive dysfunction, ADHD, and depression be damned! My limited study time, already hampered by pre-existing conditions, would obviously be better spent fiddling with margins and bullet points on a word document and flashcard sets! The smug satisfaction and sense of superiority, knowing I painstakingly typed out every letter on those documents will surely yeild me the straight A’s I so desperately desire, but have yet failed to realize! Thank you, thank you, thank you FiniteBanjo, I don’t know where I’d be without you!!!