How To Write With An LLM

Two simple rules that let LLMs streamline and improve your writing without pasteurizing and jacking it with corn syrup. It’s tricky to write about writing. It comes across as a brag; you’re implying that you write well. Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t, but there’s for damned sure a quorum of critics on the Internet somewhere that think you suck at it. I’m vain and insecure like everybody else a

Two simple rules that let LLMs streamline and improve your writing without pasteurizing and jacking it with corn syrup. It’s tricky to write about writing. It comes across as a brag; you’re implying that you write well. Maybe you do, and maybe you don’t, but there’s for damned sure a quorum of critics on the Internet somewhere that think you suck at it. I’m vain and insecure like everybody else and find writing this piece weirdly unpleasant. But I’m getting over myself and getting this down because this advice is important, hard to argue with, and straightforward. Readers can detect LLM…

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