I finally asked the guy at the coffee shop why he uses AI to write his order notes

He told me he feeds his daily routine into a local LLM so it remembers his kid's allergies and his wife's preferred roast, and that little detail made me realize how personal AI can actually get if you let it.

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olivers281d ago

3 cups of coffee and a local LLM to remember his kid's allergies? I don't know, man. That feels like overkill for something a note on his phone could do. I get the convenience factor, but feeding your whole daily routine into a machine just so it can order coffee seems like a lot of trust for very little payoff. What happens when that LLM hallucinates and orders a dark roast for his wife instead of a light one? Or worse, mixes up the allergy info? In my experience, the simpler solution is almost always the better one. Your mileage may vary, but I'd rather just write it down.

piper_dixon451d ago

Call the bluff on the note thing. A note on your phone works great until you're elbow deep in packing lunches and your hands are covered in peanut butter. The LLM is just a fancy sticky note that doesn't need you to scroll through an app or remember to open it. If it's local and trained on your family's data, the risk of mixing up allergies is way less than me misreading my own handwriting when I'm half asleep. I've seen too many people write down "no nuts" then grab the wrong granola bar because their note was buried in a thousand other notes.