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I’ve certainly heard from LLM operators that there is a lot of skill in developing prompts and guiding their agents, but frankly it doesn’t seem like there is m

I’ve certainly heard from LLM operators that there is a lot of skill in developing prompts and guiding their agents, but frankly it doesn’t seem like there is much benefit at that point unless you’re willing to accept mediocre results or spend lots of time rewriting and trying to find errors. Given the examples of writing I’ve seen so far from them I’m skeptical that LLMs are useful for any writing where quality and truth are important.

klibertp 2mo ago
> doesn’t seem like there is much benefit at that point That depends on the problem you're trying to solve. I found it to be of great benefit when trying to overcome "writer block". Mediocre prose - but at least some prose to work with, tailored to what you want to write - can be a much better starting point than a blank sheet of paper. Also, editing can be fast: the output is mediocre in predictable ways; it's not hard to quickly identify everything of value in a paragraph and rewrite the rest. It probably takes longer than writing the paragraph from scratch - but only if you already know precisely what you want to write, which is far from "always" when writing prose, IME.