jack-of-all-trades
noun
plural jacks-of-all-trades
: a person who can do passable work at various tasks : a handy versatile person
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Anthropic's bot doesn't have the far-reaching, jack-of-all-trades skill of OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o, but without real-time access to the internet, it has been designed to lean into its strengths: intuitive conversation.
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New Atlas, 16 Mar. 2025
Dad was an inventive, jack-of-all-trades, handy man.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Can Dilute Marketing Impact In the world of marketing, a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Use Case Specific Testing While an LLM is often a jack-of-all-trades, an organization often needs it to master just one or two.
—Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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New Atlas, 16 Mar. 2025
Dad was an inventive, jack-of-all-trades, handy man.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Can Dilute Marketing Impact In the world of marketing, a jack-of-all-trades is a master of none.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Use Case Specific Testing While an LLM is often a jack-of-all-trades, an organization often needs it to master just one or two.
—Margarita Simonova, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Jack-of-all-trades.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jack-of-all-trades. Accessed 21 Mar. 2025.
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