LLM use cases : plumber & interior designer
made w/ midjourney
Somewhat counterintuitive for me, but I’ve found LLMs to be especially useful and trustworthy in the management of physical space. Two modes in particular where this has been helpful are 1) design and 2) repair.
For both of these, starting with a picture of the space you want to design or the item you want to fix is best. Then give the clearest description you can offer of the end state that you want.
You could take some pictures of your office space (or your home office, if you work remotely) and prompt something like: “Here’s the current layout and set up of my workspace. The work I do is _____ with a team of _____. The most frequent use of this space is _____ and the most important, highest-stakes use of it is _______. I’d like to redesign it with a budget of _______ so that it feels _____, ____, and ______ and enables _____. What’s the best way to achieve this?”
For repair, I take a picture of the busted or incomplete thing, describe the problem, describe what I want to be true when it is fixed, and ask for help achieving that. I’ve found this works for hardware and software issues.
“I want to hitch this 500-gallon water wagon to my creaky old Jeep so I can water a bunch of trees. What parts do I need to do this safely?”
“I’m editing a podcast episode and getting this error message every time I try to open the video file [screenshot of message]. What are my options?”
-eric
