‹ BackHN Continuity

Thread

How to Write with an LLM

769 points · 420 comments · joeriddles

  1. Eddy_Viscosity2 · · focus · HN ↗
    "LLM paragraph will register to much of your audience not as writing but as output"

    The best advice for writing for other humans is: don't use LLMs.

    If you're writing for machines, liking coding, then fine go for it. If you're writing for processes with formal highly structured content like manuals, specifications, form content, procedures, information, that sort of thing, then also ok to use LLMS. But if you're writing for a human mind to ingest and extract meaning from, then LLMs are poison.

    1. marcelo-earth · · focus · HN ↗
      In fact, post-LLM quality monitoring is a huge time trap.

      I can't write anything for humans using LLMs, because there is so much to change that it ends up like the Ship of Theseus, I would have been faster writing it myself than delegating the task.

      1. TomGarden · · focus · HN ↗
        Agreed. Time trap, and even worse imo: creative flow trap. You enter critique mode too early in the process
Open on Hacker News to reply ↗

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.