I've found the only good way to write with LLMs is to absolutely not use it for the first few drafts, the using it as a tool to list specific kinds of problems in text (word repetition, unnatural hard to read sentences etc) and approaching those points with caution and skepticism. Even copy pasting a single sentence, I've found, is a slippery slope.
One thing that sort of worked for me is to write the skeleton myself, i.e. the general ideas and how they fit together, the overall “flow” of what I want to say, then have an LLM fill in the blanks (I either point it at some context.md or have it ask me questions when details are missing).
It’s kind of like designing the high level software architecture yourself and have the LLM write the code for each component.
Not bulletproof, requires some iteration, but miles better than what it would produce on its own.
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It’s kind of like designing the high level software architecture yourself and have the LLM write the code for each component.
Not bulletproof, requires some iteration, but miles better than what it would produce on its own.