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> Strategic thought is the other thing

I feel like LLMs can be very helpful to double-check a bunch of stuff here, and evaluate alternative-paths and so on, but the "direction" really has to come from you, then you can use the LLM to double-check and what not.

But if you let the LLM set the "direction", then all bets are off, as they don't have a single care about anything in the world, so they'll just do whatever essentially.

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"Direction" is what I mean by strategic thought - but even if the high level direction came from you - the tactical approach might fall prey to the same over confidence which destroys direction setting in the first place.

I use it very sparingly for stuff like this - and even when I do - I discount its outputs heavily and maybe just use it let me see some blind spots and sanity testing.

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> The problem with writing, and something I am noticing lately, is that AI robs your ability to create prose in your style. Even if you use AI just a little bit to touch up your writing - you start being influenced - And over time it adds up - you start writing like AI just a little bit every now and then. It seems to be robbing me of my ability to create original prose.

IMHO the fix is to read more books. Obviously I mean human-written books, and specifically with prose that you appreciate.

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Not too sure - I never read that many books - and it wasnt an issue at all. I think writing more, without AI, is helping me get back to my pre-AI-stink self.
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Sure, but if you’re influenced by how AI writes, it stands to reason that you’d be influenced by a great author too, and that may help improve your writing.
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Play old JRPGs for more modern/conversational
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Agree to disagree.

Prose? Don't care, I'm not writing literature, I'm delivering a message. If AI helps that be more clear and faster, great.

Strategic thinking? The LLM has more context than you. Sure, you know more about your company, but AI knows more about the rest.

This is why AI as a tool is amazing.

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> If AI helps that be more clear and faster, great.

As a recipient of AI-enhanced texts I must say: AI is not good at making things clearer. Good communication requires that the sender makes the message as simple as possible. AI is anti-simple, because it likes to produce more words, not less.

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Gmail's AI is particularly guilty of robbing the writer of their style.
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