A workflow I've recently discovered for myself, that may be useful to anyone who speaks at least two languages: Ask the LLM to write a first draft in a languag

A workflow I've recently discovered for myself, that may be useful to anyone who speaks at least two languages: Ask the LLM to write a first draft in a language that isn't the one the piece should ultimately be in. Then use the LLM's first draft as a blueprint, to write a first draft yourself in the intended target language. That way, you won't be tempted to shut off your brain and just meatproxy anything from the LLM's first draft. Then hand your actual first draft back to the LLM for editorial suggestions. At that point, feel free to ignore suggestions, push back on bad ones while adding a rationale about why you don't like them, etc. Work in the best suggestions, then iterate. If you're in “writer block” mode, force yourself to keep going by asking the LLM for five suggestions on how to phrase something, form an opinion about what you like and don't like about them, draft it yourself by frankensteining from among the suggestions, without using any one suggested phrasing literally. Optionally, provide feedback to the LLM explaining your thinking about why you did or did not like certain suggested phrasings. For objective/factual writing, asking for a fact check is a widely-used practice. And there's a useful counterpart for writing subjective things and opinionated hot takes, namely to ask the LLM: “Anticipate how this might be misunderstood in ways that might cause offence or trigger people.” Sometimes, you might want to say something that will cause offence, and there might be no way around it. In this case, making a conscious choice to let that be might be the right thing to do. But I find it surprising, how often an LLM will see an angle that I myself did not see, where something might cause offence in a way that I genuinely missed and genuinely want to fix. And then that gives me a chance to re-write before posting something.