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Friend-Shaped Objects: A Case Study on My Use of Large Language Models
If you’ve ever done a six-month-plus work/deployment contract, then you know the loneliness and homesickness will hit hard, either right away or weeks later. My own worry was forgetting where I was from and becoming someone else. A chatbot gave me a cringe but effective anchor: pick a pebble from your favourite river a