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there's this fleeting feeling that I can just have Chat generate the post
I think what I am trying to say above that this feeling is deceptive. So while I understand the temptation, it's just something you have to guard yourself against, because it's the wrong use of the tool. Especially because:
AMA announcement for someone we have coming this week
[..]
I like to say something interesting about each guest, kind of like a hook.
[..]
and producing something that is good enough.
Honestly, I think you've got the right idea here. You don't let an LLM write something about someone else (unless it's a vibe song, which would be fun) because doing that the "easy" way out is directly showing how much you value the person that you're hosting. When you host someone, I think it's best to spend the time. More so than any post about the latest fake L2 (though there too it is good to just write your own thing.)
I'd try to shift perception from "LLMs deliver a product" to "LLMs deliver input". I'll give you an example from my end:
I owe k00b a plan. If I would have generated it or even parts of it, it would have been done last month, because unlike me, LLMs don't get fatigue or writers block. I do. But this stuff is important to get right because I've been designing a privacy feature and the plan covers how to implement it. One does not fuck these up, and prior experience tells me that LLMs fuck up all the time. So, it's slow, but it will be good. The way I use LLMs is to fact-check me, to test my plan for errors. To check for shit I missed and to audit end-to-end correctness. But not, absolutely not, to write the end product.
LLMs deliver an input
This is an excellent framing and I'm going to use it a lot I think. It short circuits my complaint and perhaps if I spent more time thinking about LLMs providing inputs, it would change this weird mental desire to be lazy.
But here's my next question: imagine we live in a world where LLMs don't fuck things up. How does this change how we think?
This may just be so much navel gazing though. And not particularly useful.
imagine we live in a world where LLMs don't fuck things up.
Note: fucking up is subjective!
Current architectural issues aside, this is probably attainable when you train (not write prompts and skill files for) ScoresbysAssistant™. And I'll have OptisLittleHelper™.
At that moment it will not change your mindset, because you will own it. It will be your tool, not someone else's rotten magic. You'll be you but then you'll truly be able to do 10x productivity.
Solution may have been too strong a term on my part.
Here's an example: I want to write an AMA announcement for someone we have coming this week. It doesn't take long because I have a format I use for all of them and that gives the post a lot of structure. However, I like to say something interesting about each guest, kind of like a hook.
Often when pull up notepad to write this kind of post, there's this fleeting feeling that I can just have Chat generate the post. It will likely be good enough for social media. Whereas if I do it, it will probably take 5 minutes because I really want to try to make it a strong hook (often I fail at this, but the desire is the point here).
In this sense, an LLM can probably solve my problem by taking far less time and producing something that is good enough.
So, the thing I'm talking about is this: how does it change how I think and ability of my mind that I've always got this little "easy button" I can tap? -- even if I don't tap it, I resent the way it intrudes on my thought process.