Posted by erwald 3 days ago
Good or bad please let me know what you think of this format!
You're probably extending the logic from the idea that a programmer-llm is a tool. That is at least a defensible position. A written program isn't written to be experienced by people (usually), rather to create certain outcomes.
On the other hand, the written word is the entire experience of the person reading your thing, and that can all be created by an AI without your input. It has it's own biases and motivations and "alignments" (so to speak). Thus it is not a tool and actually a writer itself. And when it writes, you miss out on the experience of having written it, thus actually you end up becoming the tool (pun intended) that LLM is using to express itself.
If you're talking about the general plan, structuring paragraphs, organizing your thoughts then I totally agree. Claude, in particular, is very hard to read.
But if English is a second language for you and you still get confused about what is the proper preposition or phrasal verb then you need AI. I suggest Grammarly.