Don't use an LLM to write for you, use it as a thinking partner.

· Bits and Bobs 12/9/24
  • Don't use an LLM to write for you, use it as a thinking partner.
    • LLMs' ideas are never good.
      • They're always mush, just frog DNA.
      • I was chatting with an author who told me he refuses to use an LLM.
        • He told me you "write what you read", and he feared that the more he's exposed to the mushy writing of LLMs, the more his own writing would become mush.
    • But LLMs do give you a fun, well-read conversation partner to bounce your ideas off of which helps make your ideas better.
    • Someone told me the mark of a good conversation partner is someone with "good bounce".
      • Someone you can go anywhere with topic wise, and they're willing and able to engage, to bounce the idea right back to you.
    • LLMs have good bounce; they're willing to entertain whatever line of inquiry you want to engage in.
    • The bouncing back and forth of ideas is how they become better.
    • The discussion helps make your writing output better, even if no specific line was written by the LLM.

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