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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 context this discussion seems to miss is the push to do more with less humans. Im not dictating the dev workflows. My bosses are. My judgment is as good as the amount of time i have to spend. Even if Im the best engineer, giving me a 2 min budget to review 10k lines wont go well. But it does not matter to my boss's okrs

Re: AI tools are only as good as your judgment

#6
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 see much to improve, or you don't consider the remaining model critiques convincing given your greater understanding of the context.

Use the model's expertise to raise the bar on the quality of writing you do that day. And you will have raised the quality you expect and get from yourself going forward.

If it is really important, then once you are convinced you are "done", have the model make a complete rewrite as it sees best. After all that writing, anything that improves at that point will pop, and you won't forget it.

Any important task should be used to improve one's skills. With a model or without. That's the healthy frame of mind for using models.

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…

I find this really effective. Also, “ask me questions about this one at a time until I say to stop”
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