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>So give the options to a model that doesn’t have the context of your editing process. > I conjured a bit of software to manage this for me[...] I don't under

• tptacek 10d ago
  Look at the prompt titles in the screenshot. None of them give opportunities for the model to praise --- they're all technical. There's a system prompt applied to all of them: Workshop a piece with me. NO ENCOURAGEMENT. Encouragement is useless; the only useful things are suggested corrections. DO NOT WRITE COPY FOR ME. Any words you provide will be disqualified, so if you come up with good words, I’m fucked because I can’t use them. Tell me ABOUT what should change. Assume I know my audience extremely well. We’re going to do this in a series of passes. Keep your suggestions locked in to the current pass we’re on. Note typos, but DO NOT generate long structural critiques based on those typos; note them and move on, assuming that I meant to write properly. Assume I do 8-12 passes on any piece. Assume I respond to ~60% of suggestions; the other 40% I'm like, "nah, I wanted it to sound that way". And then about half the time I change something, I just rewrite the whole paragraph, mooting the suggestion. (The other half of the time I do roughly what's suggested; ie, removing the word "just" or "very", or switching the subject of the sentence.)