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I completely agree in principle, but to play devil's advocate, if an "author's" prompting technique is better than mine such that they generate a more useful ar
by tpoacher 2mo ago
I completely agree in principle, but to play devil's advocate, if an "author's" prompting technique is better than mine such that they generate a more useful article than what my own AI session might produce on average, then maybe there's value in some generated articles.
The above still implies some effort going into good prompting, however. I completely agree about the uselessness of "build me a castle; no bugs plz" style generated articles.
- mediaman 2mo agoIt's possible, but I've experimented with different style guides and prompt methods and have never gotten it to output what I'd call "good" writing. It is almost always low information density. Sometimes I can get it to remove most of the extraordinarily cliche phrases it injects into everything, along with the tortured, gauche prose (especially Claude). But what remains is an expansion algorithm: it takes a simple idea and expands it like polyurethane foam to fill however much space it can take, the volume filled mainly by grammatical syntax and only traced with any actual semantic meaning.
- tpoacher 2mo agoFair enough, but to be fair, that just sounds like bad defaults to me. Most of the things you describe mostly go away with a nice customised system prompt.
- elendilm 2mo agoOne can give details of a product and ask the ai to generate the documentation.
- gowld 2mo ago"Good" is subjective, but I found this OOTB sufficiently information-dense and easy-to-customize: https://claude.ai/share/ac747c6d-2a62-40b7-b33e-06a94cf34344 https://claude.ai/share/ac747c6d-2a62-40b7-b33e-06a94cf34344