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- dleeftink 2y agoHuman in the loop, I like it. Next step: real-time unit-texts!
- gioazzi 2y agoWatch mode is definitely coming! Right now I was just testing locally and the performance of the model is just not there to get feedback that fast, but the idea of automated tests is of course that they should be as fast as possible.
- rcarmo 2y agoI've been doing something similar with my drafts (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/01/12/1730 https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/01/12/1730) but have found that if I follow the LLM's recommendations all the time my writing becomes bland and formulaic.
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- timeon 2y agoAm I the only one who sees only the title on that page?
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- gioazzi 2y agoDamn... I think you're being hit by some bug in the fancy fade-in animation. It's supposed to trigger on scroll. I don't really like it, but apparently it's what cool kids do these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and it came with the template. But if it randomly breaks, too, off it goes!
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- rednafi 2y agoMeta blogs—aka blogs about blogging—are a common theme on the Hacker News front page. So are blogs about making blogs. I’m not denigrating anyone’s effort here, but the greatest trick behind blogging consistently is simply picking up the keyboard and starting to write. There’s no other secret sauce. As you write more, you’ll find your own style and the set of methods that work for you. This is one thing I’ve learned from continuously putting out stuff[1] for the last six years. LLMs can be helpful, but they aren’t a replacement for thought. Pretty, JS-infested sites are mostly a big time waster unless you’re writing about something interesting. The same goes for scripted processes. You write, read, edit, and hit publish. How many eyeballs your blog gets has little to do with how perfectly you nail your theme. More often than not, it’s a bit of luck and being authentic. It took four years before my write-ups started hitting the front page here. That was never my intention. I wrote for myself, and some people eventually found it useful. I don’t follow any of these scripted processes and would rather focus on the topic than the process itself. Too much focus on the process and a little too little on the subject. [1]: https://rednafi.com/ https://rednafi.com/
- diggan 2y ago> would rather focus on the topic than the process itself. Too much focus on the process and a little too little on the subject. Everyone seems to write for different reasons, for better or worse. Maybe for some people, getting to think long about the process itself, is the goal, then they're successful even if they never even publish a post. With that said, I'm guessing most people start a blog because they want to say something, and then you're right, the only way to succeed is to put your fingers to the keyboard and finally publish something. But its worth keeping in mind that not everyone have the same goal.
- GuB-42 2y agoHow can the editing part be a bad thing? Published writers have editors who check their work before publishing. The result is a work that is more pleasant to read and with less chances of mistakes. This is reproducing the process with a LLM, which is a great option when you are self-publishing and when hiring a professional editor is hardly justified, as it is typically the case for blogs. LLMs are very good when it comes to the technicalities of writing, which can make them great allies for writing better blog posts. Any kind of writing, really. Another thing to consider is that the author of the blog post here is presumably not a native English speaker, judging by his use of Italian to make a point. Even proficient non-natives will sometimes use some odd phrasing that may be distracting, even to another non-native. All this editing is additional work people may not want to do, and that's fine, but for those who do the work, I think the result can only be better.
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- JeromeLon 2y agoThis email passed unit tests. I would love gmail (or any mail composing tool) to trigger my defined list of unit tests whenever I click on "send". Something similar to OP. For me it would probably be: - the email must be direct and concise - the email must be respectful of the recipient and of anyone else would could read - the email must use proper English And the AI would give suggestions to reach the goals if some of them failed.
- diggan 2y ago> - the email must be respectful of the recipient and of anyone else would could read Is this something you commonly struggle with? Sounds like something that could be a deeper issue than just "writing emails in a weird way", as you'd hit that issue using your natural voice, which you can kind of hack away in emails with LLMs, but what about communication outside the computer?
- JeromeLon 2y agoI am not struggling with it in the sense that I need help on how to write in a better way. It's just that I don't always ask myself whether the email I am about to send may contain unnecessary anger and would deserve an extra 5 minutes of cool down.
- kuboble 2y agoAs a person who frequently offends people unintentionally I think any feedback for any communication form is a good learning material.
- gioazzi 2y agoI'd love to have this, too! There are a couple of things I'd like to do next: - make it into a public API - so that it's easier to create plugins; - provide multiple "blueprints" for different types of text (in this case, for emails). I think with these 2 features it should then be trivial to make it available in email clients, or as a browser extension.
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- Ferret7446 2y agoThe irony is that the article now reads (more?) like AI slop. Which I suppose is to be expected. GenAI is really great at generating. Not so great at critical thinking, logic, correctness, etc
- workfromspace 2y ago... and requires JavaScript to run.