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ChatGPT isn't stable tech. It has been improving dramatically and qualitatively in its short life. Its interfaces are currently quite primitive too, so its cur
by Nevermark 4y ago
ChatGPT isn't stable tech. It has been improving dramatically and qualitatively in its short life.
Its interfaces are currently quite primitive too, so its current value may be underrated.
I would love to be able to edit an outline, while watching a filled out essay update side-by-side. The ability to tweak the outline, add hints, and tweak wording or completely take responsibility for particular sentences or paragraphs in the produced essay, would be a massive time saver, and productivity multiplier.
Note that demand for documentation tends to be a secondary, not primary, concern of the products they serve. So demand for documentation is not likely to grow dramatically just because documentation got vastly cheaper to write.
In other words, a productivity bump like this could eliminate a lot of jobs in just one category of knowledge work.
Add in the ability to use sibling tech to generate lively images, diagrams, figures ...
And translate ...
Note that the outline prompts, and other prompts, used to generate a document this way would be orders of magnitude easier to refactor to reflect future changes, than a manually written document ...