Altogether, the exercise reinforced my previous opinion: LLMs are terrible writers, but decent editorial rubber ducks.
https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/rubber-duck-editing-with-llms
@molly0xfff Great tips. To add onto this, I like to tell AI to critique a piece and to be as harsh as possible. Really helps to find weak arguments and areas people will be quick to criticize.
@joshwayne When the LLM started out by telling me "You've got a compelling narrative and some valuable insights here" I found myself wondering if ChatGPT would ever respond with something like "wow, this draft is real garbage". Probably not.
@molly0xfff definitely not. If you explicitly say "critique this. Be harsh/cruel" it's about as mean as the average HN comment: very analytical, sometimes misses the point, and seems to be arguing for argument's sake