- You can use AI to look through docs and do research.
- You can use AI to structure your argument.
- You can NOT use AI to actually write the prose.
- You can use AI to proofread, especially for how effectively you've communicated.
I don't know, man, that sounds a lot like using AI to write. Your writing probably says "load-bearing" less than Claude's outputs, but I'm not sure it's much less AI.
there's a growing contingent of anti-ai extremists shouting down anything that looks or feels like the thing they hate: actual slop. but there's a missing understanding of where slop really comes from - "you used ai instead of thinking" is just another guess, and mostly wrong since you literally cannot use ai without thinking - the prompts don't write themselves.
slop has been around a lot longer than ai - the contingent needs to realize what it is they hate. instead of "don't use ai to write" it's "don't use ai to write slop" or better: "don't write slop"
No. I hate AI and slop. I hated slop before AI, but with AI slop has proliferated to an unprecedented degree. If AI went away tomorrow, slop would go down with it to 1/1000ths of what it is today.
To be clear, I (the author of the article) do not hate AI. A lot of my current work is focussed on making AI work well.
However, I don't think it's a good idea to replace our own thinking with an AI, and that's what I'm trying to avoid with the way of working proposed in the article.
trjordan · · focus · HN ↗
- You can use AI to look through docs and do research.
- You can use AI to structure your argument.
- You can NOT use AI to actually write the prose.
- You can use AI to proofread, especially for how effectively you've communicated.
I don't know, man, that sounds a lot like using AI to write. Your writing probably says "load-bearing" less than Claude's outputs, but I'm not sure it's much less AI.
gfody · · focus · HN ↗
slop has been around a lot longer than ai - the contingent needs to realize what it is they hate. instead of "don't use ai to write" it's "don't use ai to write slop" or better: "don't write slop"
runarberg · · focus · HN ↗
pbakker · · focus · HN ↗
However, I don't think it's a good idea to replace our own thinking with an AI, and that's what I'm trying to avoid with the way of working proposed in the article.