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I don't think writing is an "AI-complete" problem. It's just that the models are inefficient at it right now, due to training and/or architecture. Good writing

I don't think writing is an "AI-complete" problem. It's just that the models are inefficient at it right now, due to training and/or architecture. Good writing requires thinking, reflection, and doing multiple passes. This currently translates to using a high reasoning effort and burning lots of tokens, but big AI labs like Anthropic are struggling with handling the load, so they're doing the exact opposite and finding whatever cheap trick they can to reduce token usage. One such trick is condensing ideas into as few tokens as possible, which in my opinion is one of the reasons Claude sucks so much at writing.

vips7L 26d ago
> Good writing requires thinking, reflection, and doing multiple passes Same with code, but that doesn't seem to matter anymore.
- jiraiyasarutobi 26d ago
  That's because it's cheaper to automate than pay a software engineer. The economics has to make sense. Writing is tricky. Prose quality isn't there yet for many genres. You can tell AI written prose apart. Maybe it won't matter. Maybe there is demand for it even. Or Maybe we will create genre specific finetunes if there is enough demand for it.
  - vips7L 26d ago
    > That's because it's cheaper to automate than pay a software engineer For now. It also seems like we're still paying software engineers.
- ValentineC 26d ago
  There's a lot of writing that is meant to be read by humans. Code's ultimate goal, on the other hand, is to be run by computers.
  - vips7L 26d ago
    I highly disagree. Code is still meant to be and still is read more by humans.