Use AI to write things for you to read that you wish someone else had written. ‘Give me a summary of the research on this topic’; ‘Write a report on this data to help me make a decision’. ‘Take this transcript of a meeting and write me the email it could have been’.
Don’t use AI to write things that you are producing for someone else to consume.
It's a two-way street. When someone tells you "don't do that", they usually mean they don't want to be on the receiving end of what often amounts to LLM-powered literary diarrhea.
Yes, in theory, the quality can be the same or better than human output. In practice, the tool creates two problems: it's too easy to produce walls of text for no compelling reason, placing asymmetric burden on the recipients; and it's too tempting to click "send" without reading because you're "90% sure" the email / doc is correct, wasting everyone's time multiple times every week when it isn't.
jameshart · · focus · HN ↗
Don’t use AI to write things that you are producing for someone else to consume.
oblelisk1 · · focus · HN ↗
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in_absentia · · focus · HN ↗
Yes, in theory, the quality can be the same or better than human output. In practice, the tool creates two problems: it's too easy to produce walls of text for no compelling reason, placing asymmetric burden on the recipients; and it's too tempting to click "send" without reading because you're "90% sure" the email / doc is correct, wasting everyone's time multiple times every week when it isn't.