Miss me with this. I write way more now than a year ago. Mainly because I have to explain myself to the LLM. I'm fairly certain I write 50x more than before simply because before my weekend was spent gaming and watching anime. Now I'm having fun building things.
replyLLM prompts definitely don’t feel like “writing” to me in the way that writing a blog post (or even an HN comment) does or writing code used to. There is nothing to work out, you don’t really need to think. You’re _typing_ sure, but I don’t think it counts as writing maybe because the text that you write is thrown away.
replyI am doing memory research on emotion, sensory perception, and cognitive quality over time while explaining in extreme detail how to do a specific hinge animation in another thread doing blender animations for mechanical movement. I am also writing blog posts manually about all these things with zero LLM help. I do this on purpose knowing the quality of the LLM output is directly proportional to the quality of the input.
replyI'm way more articulated now than I've ever been, because in the past I didn't have to -- I never write a blog post -- but I've learned that well thought-out writing, with clear description, will produce better code.
replyThe bottom line is, prompting is definitely writing.
But what are you writing? My bet is it is short bursts of text that are thrown away as soon as it is interpreted by your LLM.
replyIdk man I get a ton out of gaming and other media. If I say “I’m a cinephile” no one bats an eye, it’s seen as elevated and intellectually stimulating. Your examples reflect more on the gate keeping we do with what’s considered “worthy of our time” and “art” than the value of LLM’s.
replyI'm not drawing a moral equilancy here. You're right that people get all gate keepy. But the premise was that I do less writing. The truth could not possibly be further from reality. My actual words typed is thru the roof.
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