I haven't written articles in quite a while and I recently decided to come back to it.
At work I use AI daily, so a big part of my coding tasks are delegated to agents. I try not to do the same when it comes to writing text but I don't have a clear reason for that (or maybe I do and I don't want to admit it).
I am sure people can take advantage of generating text with the help of AI but at the moment I feel like prompting would not save me any time and writing the text myself would be faster.
What about you? Are you using AI to write your articles?
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Not wanting to plagiarize seems like a pretty good reason, if you're looking for one, but "I just don't want to" is also perfectly valid.
Yes, I think that's the real reason but I'll just go with "I just don't want to" since it doesn't invite as many questions 😁.
I can see the value in asking an AI to check over your writing if you're not using your first language, for example, though there's no reason this should use generative AI rather than "conventional" analysis.
Anything else, well, if you're prompting something, essentially you're saying that your article can be compressed into that prompt. So if you're going to use AI to write a post, treat it like you might share a JPEG instead of a RAW photo file: just share your prompt instead. At least that's more honest.
Yes, true, when using it similar to how one would use services like Grammarly, it totally makes sense. And I really like your analogies 😅.
That's so true, personally, I do use AI at times just to refine whatever I have written. I complete the entire thought that I have in normal words and then let AI do the refining. I think it does a pretty good job. But the point is that, because of that, I feel like I have lost the art of structuring my writing. But it's a mixture of both for me that works the best, at times, AI gives me ideas that otherwise I would not have produced..
I have the same experience when using AI for code generation, sometimes it comes with ideas that maybe I wouldn't have come up with. I think it can work very well for brainstorming and I do fear that I will lose skills if I don't do the writing, so this a strong motivator to structure the text myself.
How exactly do you use it for refinement, you give it the final text and ask it to work on that?
Same instinct here, and I think there's a real reason behind it. With code, I can verify the output fast: it runs or it doesn't, tests pass or they don't. With writing, the verification is the writing. The thinking happens while I put the words down, so handing that off means I skip the part that was actually the point.
I totally agree, the info sticks differently when you actually write it down insted of offloading the work to the agent.
Keep going! Enjoy the process of writing!
Thank you, the same to you 🤗