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bartread • today at 1:53 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

For me I take the view that it’s similar to asking a human for feedback. I sift it, ditch what I’m not interested in or don’t agree with, do more research on what might be interesting, then decide what I want to incorporate and rewrite from there.

On grammar, typos, and the like I tend to take LLM feedback as read in most cases. Beyond this I think it’s a mistake not to do the legwork yourself, just as you’d have to if you’ve ever worked with a human editor.

But the LLM is helpful because it reduces the cycle time for feedback, which helps maintain momentum - helps me anyway.


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xorcist • today at 2:40 PM

> For me I take the view that it’s similar to asking a human for feedback

But it's not asking a human for feedback. That's kind of an important difference, isn't it?

No human tried to understand your writing, and tried to explain their understandings back to you. How much is left of the editorial process then?

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