Technology

There definitely are tasks where using the "standard tools" goes far faster than asking the LLM to do it for you, such as: copying signatures from images onto a .pdf contract - they're pretty hopeless at editing out background noise, etc. but if you clean up the signature input images enough, they'll take it home and make the ink solid and the background transparent and overlay them in the .pdf faster than you can open the four files in Photoshop or whatever your tool of choice is.

By the way, images of signatures on electronic documents have been an outrageous farce since 20 years now, LLMs just make it easier than ever to edit them into an existing .pdf

Thing is, there's literally millions of common "computer tasks" and the LLMs themselves are just starting to "learn" which ones they're good at and which they are not. It would be cool if Opus would self-identify "hey, I'm really good at this..." and "I'm pretty challenged with that, you'd be better off downloading this FOSS tool and doing it yourself, here are helpful instructions..."