Lately I started playing with an LLM operating as my own virtual assistant
. I was skeptical, I mean I still am skeptical, about this whole ‘AI will take your job’, but now I do understand the appeal. You can finally have a computer do your biding in a way you control. Previously computer were complicated beasts. You needed to appeal to it like with threats in form of complicated keystrokes forming more complicated commands evolving in even more complicated programs that may or not do the thing you actually wanted. Or it may be not amused by your plea and swallow your data. You would never know for sure if you would not learn those complex magical incantations in magical schools called Universities which takes years and a lot of money. Or you could hire those magicians, Software Engineers, or even Archmages, that commands magicians, called Software Architects that would be appeasing the capricious spirit of the machine to direct flow of money in a company in a correct way. But this is costly and those spells takes years. So you may hire more magicians, entire houses of magic that will appease, train and teach your pricey machine beasts to do what you need them to do. Those houses are called Software Houses for Enterprise Solutions. And they will force those machines to do what you need them to do. Sometimes they will replace entire herds of machines because previous ones were not cooperative enough. And this is costing you riches beyond riches. If you did not had your weight in gold to buy such service you could buy trained machine to do what you need that were not even at your house but somewhere far beyond the realms of your kingdom, in a place called The Cloud. Or you could buy complex incantation that needed only few keywords in correct place to operate your business - CRM or Accounting System or ERP.
