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AI tools are only as good as your judgment

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Re: AI tools are only as good as your judgment

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The best way to improve your writing with AI isn't to have it write for you. Nor is it to have the AI clean up your writing. The best method is write, and when you hit a wall, or might even be done, ask the model "Do not rewrite this, but read it, step back and consider it as a whole, then tell me what strikes you, what works, what could use some work." Then create another draft. Repeat until neither you or the model…

LLM writing is also a pretty good angle of attack against the existential horror that is the blank page - if you can’t think of what to write, generate something, and then set yourself the task of at least creating something better than that.

Very good way to break yourself out of the inertia of “I don’t know how to get started” in my experience.

Re: AI tools are only as good as your judgment

#19

The best way to improve your writing with AI isn't to have it write for you. Nor is it to have the AI clean up your writing. The best method is write, and when you hit a wall, or might even be done, ask the model "Do not rewrite this, but read it, step back and consider it as a whole, then tell me what strikes you, what works, what could use some work." Then create another draft. Repeat until neither you or the model…

A lot of my writing is informational, for work, and I do find it pretty helpful to just ask an AI model "is there anything unclear about this document or questions a reader is likely to have?"
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