Making writing easier with AI
This article of about 2500 words was almost entirely generated by a large language model. I did make some edits before it was published, but this is the full diff of what was changed: LLMs have become an indispensable part of my writing pipeline, and I think a lot of the techniques I use to write are still relatively uncommon. In the spirit of learning together, here's a short demonstration of how it was made, prompts and all. The first thing I always do is to write an outline. Usually for me that's in the form of an argument. What is the central core of what I want to express? Don't think too much about language, just get things out and onto paper. Here's the outline that became the article: This is a good exercise regardless of your process. Lay things out in simple terms. Connect your sentences together, and it helps you figure out if what you have to say is worth saying. From a language model perspective, this skeleton is going to help the model understand the flow of what you're t
Making writing easier with AI Hrishi Olickel Making writing easier with AI What my pipeline looks like This article of about 2500 words was almost entirely generated by a large language model. I did make some edits before it was published, but this is the full diff of what was changed: LLMs have become an indispensable part of my writing pipeline, and I think a lot of the techniques I use to write are still relatively uncommon. In the spirit of learning together, here's a short demonstration of how it was made, prompts and all. § Step 1: Surface area The first thing I always do is to write an
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