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How to Write with an LLM

769 points · 420 comments · joeriddles

  1. crossroadsguy · · focus · HN ↗
    > frontier models are supernaturally good at selecting pleasing turns of phrase

    It's not even the suggestions in isolation, but it tries to convince you that your writing is stellar and then slips in a word or two, and you accept it because otherwise you'd be skipping greatness. I guess in some way one has to have a bit of hubris about one's writing to tell the model to f off.

    And OP, assuming this, from your prompt, is your language:

    > "… First get the bones up…"

    Congratulations, you are now doing LLM-speak :-)

    1. tptacek · · focus · HN ↗
      I don't so much worry about whether LLMs taking my prompts enjoy my style.
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