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Posted by eigenBasis 1 day ago

Don't Use AI to Write(paulbakker.io)
142 points | 83 commentspage 3
John-16-3 1 day ago|
Here is a good explanation in a deeper way of why using AI to write is not a good thing

https://markgreville.ie/2024/12/10/generative-ai-is-digital-...

artursapek 1 day ago||
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It's a word processor that lets you selectively accept AI suggestions, or just talk to the agent in margin comments. I've been working on this full time for over a year now.

gonzalohm 1 day ago||
The article opens with

> Writing requires thinking, don't let an AI do the thinking for you.

And then the author goes on to admit that they use AI for coding. Does coding not require thinking or what?

I agree that we shouldn't be delegating thinking to AI, but stopping at writing seems disingenuous.

objclxt 1 day ago|
> Does coding not require thinking or what?

Code is deterministic, and language is not. If I write:

total = 0 for x in [1, 2, 3]: total += x

…nobody is going to argue with me that “total” is anything but 7.

But language is different. What you perceive and what I perceive from the written word can be completely different (e.g https://youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo&ra=m )

gonzalohm 1 day ago||
That's not the argument in the article. Not only that but coding is deterministic up to a certain point. Once the project becomes complex, it becomes harder and harder to account for all edge cases. Sometimes it requires heuristics that are not deterministic, etc. There are infinite ways to implement the same requirements.

That argument is like saying that weather is deterministic. It is if you know every single variable, but that's impossible.

alansaber 1 day ago||
Yes but on the sliding scale of how deterministic is this task- writing, not very. coding, can execute and write some tests (even if gamed/bad).
efilife 1 day ago||
wow really?
tigerhuliu 1 day ago||
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batmang 1 day ago||
We can write draft by using our thoughts.. and check for grammer mistakes thats it.

Our usual flow of writing should not be disturbed at all..

Fixing grammer mistakes wont change the soul.

gfody 1 day ago||
> Fixing grammer mistakes wont change the soul.

Pangram disagrees, if your grammar was fixed by AI it's "100% Written by AI"

ModernMech 1 day ago||
What is a soul, how do you measure and quantify it? If you can’t, how would you know whether the grammar mistakes change the soul? I’ve heard people say they keep the grammar mistakes in to prove the existence of a soul, so presumably correcting them would alter the soul in some measurable way.
vivzkestrel 1 day ago||
- why stop at writing? put this advice for coding too

- sure its good to ask AI feedback about your module or code review or identify vulnerabilities or better ways of doing your existing code

- but maybe stop asking AI to generate entire projects from scratch?

FiniteIntegral 1 day ago|
I'm not sure where people are going with using LLMs for research on a topic.

LLMs construct documents like a middle manager trying to get you fired, so it's a bad idea to get a system to try to research something for you. Anytime I've used the ol' panopticon-homunculus for something applied and niche I always follow the source linked to verify it. And the source is vague and generally unverifiable. Humans can actually link other documents that are actually readable to a greater degree.

I think a large part of the blame is the dataset for large scale LLMs being thoroughly and disproportionality poisoned with popular media sites like Reddit.