What makes you feel human?
I am was almost a data scientist. I feel imposter syndrome creeping in on me more and more every day, and today I want to talk about it. It is 2026, and LLMs are mainstream now. Almost everyone uses them. I am sure my entire team and I would hesitate to write an email without using any of these LLMs. I have seen people use it to frame even WhatsApp messages now. My brother often tells me stories about patients who have a very down-to-earth lifestyle, often small farmers using ChatGPT to come up with a diagnosis of their problems before reaching the hospital. I see people blindly trusting it, and why shouldn't they? It makes them feel better! I make a living out of telling people how to use these LLMs the right way, how they hallucinate, what not to use them for and how LLMs phrase sentences that are aimed to make you feel better. Yet, I used it for analysing my birth chart a couple of days ago (call it irony, call it hypocrisy, I don't know, I slept through my En...