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ramijamesyesterday at 7:31 PM0 repliesview on HN

Mmm, I doubt it.

I have a weird background (product, development, writing + devrel). I write a lot of code and a lot of articles.

I think there is a lot of overlap in how people who write code or articles (documentation, books, etc.) use AI. On one side of the spectrum, you have people who just blindly input some prompt, accept the output and move on with their lives. You can likely predict how that is going for them (not great). On the other side of the spectrum, you have people who outright reject all AI and are continuing to plod on with how they have always done things.

In the center is a more reasonable approach that leverages AI to create without blindly accepting the output. This applies very much to writing.

The workflow that I've adopted over the past two years or so has been to leverage AI to help with the research and outline process. Once I'm happy with the structure I go and I write what I need to write.

This maps pretty closely to the code that I write. It's fine.