To give an example: 1 hour discussing possible solutions with ChatGPT and testing the chat bots recommendations solved this problem:
How to correctly create /var/cache/apt/archives/partial with tmpfs.
I could not find anything about that problem on the internet (or on this forum) because it is not a generally used setup. But the LLM had swallowed the systemd docs and the apt code, analyzed both statistically and managed to come up with the right config. I would not have been able to find that on my own.
So LLMs are definitely a great ressource for somebody who knows what they are doing. But not a replacement for a search engine and also not a replacement for good advice.
How to correctly create /var/cache/apt/archives/partial with tmpfs.
I could not find anything about that problem on the internet (or on this forum) because it is not a generally used setup. But the LLM had swallowed the systemd docs and the apt code, analyzed both statistically and managed to come up with the right config. I would not have been able to find that on my own.
So LLMs are definitely a great ressource for somebody who knows what they are doing. But not a replacement for a search engine and also not a replacement for good advice.
Statistics: Posted by ilu — 2026-01-01 13:49