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jackjeffyesterday at 9:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

There’s a world of difference between using AI as an editor vs letting it write a whole essay for you. AI;DR is about the latter.


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thatjoeoverthryesterday at 9:39 PM

I'll push back and say it's the former. Good business writing is all about the editing, and autoregressive LLMs are terrible editors. They roll dice on every word and put the same tics on every text. They meander.

Suppose you check something with ChatGPT, get nine hundred words, edit that down to three or even one and send that. You won't get AI;DR for "I checked, we're good."

teo_zerotoday at 6:25 AM

> using AI as an editor vs letting it write a whole essay for you. AI;DR is about the latter

I'm sure that's the intention, but the alarming trend, at least here on HN, is crying wolf at the first em-dash.

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