alt Hacker NewsLLM prompts definitely don’t feel like “writing” to me in the way that writing a blog post (or even an HN comment) does or writing code used to. There is nothing to work out, you don’t really need to think. You’re _typing_ sure, but I don’t think it counts as writing maybe because the text that you write is thrown away.
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jryle70 • today at 5:05 AM
I'm way more articulated now than I've ever been, because in the past I didn't have to -- I never write a blog post -- but I've learned that well thought-out writing, with clear description, will produce better code.
The bottom line is, prompting is definitely writing.
I am doing memory research on emotion, sensory perception, and cognitive quality over time while explaining in extreme detail how to do a specific hinge animation in another thread doing blender animations for mechanical movement. I am also writing blog posts manually about all these things with zero LLM help. I do this on purpose knowing the quality of the LLM output is directly proportional to the quality of the input.