Benedict Evans

And I was going to speak at an event at the beginning of 2023.

And the conference people had asked me for a long biography of myself.

And I still don't have one.

And so they'd made one and they'd used it with chat TPT and not told me.

And they just sent it to me to check.

And I looked at them and I said, what the fuck is this bullshit?

That's 2020.

That's like generations ago.

That's not relevant to the point I'm going to make.

The point I'm going to make is, A, it was always the right kind of biography.

It was the right kind of degree, the right kind of university, the right kind of experience, the right kind of jobs.

It just wasn't actually the right things.

But B, I could take that and fix it.

So for them, it was useless.

For me, it was very useful.

I could spend 30 seconds fixing it instead of spending an hour scratching my head, which is why I say right or wrong depends, which is a very kind of French philosopher kind of question.

Does the prompt have errors?

It kind of depends why you wanted it.

Okay, well, I don't have use cases where I want something that's roughly right.

I don't have use cases where I want a list of 10 ideas or I want it to brainstorm or I want it to draw from an email or I want it to write code or I don't want it to generate some images.