One use of LLMs that I haven't seen mentioned before is to use them as a sounding board for your own ideas. By discussing your concept with an LLM, you can gain fresh perspectives through its generated responses.
In this context, the LLM's actual comprehension is irrelevant. The purpose lies in its ability to spark new thought processes by prompting you with unexpected framings or questions.
Definitely recommend trying this trick next time you're writing something.
seconding gpt4all, makes it quick and easy to run and if youre fancy you can stream the output from your computer to your phone. i run a capybara-hermes-mistral mix but i would suggest starting with mistral instruct until claude3 comes out