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How to Write with an LLM

769 points · 420 comments · joeriddles

  1. brap · · focus · HN ↗
    One thing that you should absolutely never do: have an LLM review and “improve” the text repeatedly in some closed loop.

    This might work well for some tasks (coding), but for writing it will absolutely take reasonable text and turn it into a pile of incoherent garbage no human would ever write.

    Maybe I’m the only one keeps trying this (more often than I’m willing to admit), but I suspect it’s a common cope engineers reach for when having to deal with the not-so-fun task of writing prose.

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