[oliverbennett]

Some people are better at writing than editing, some people are better at editing than writing.

I find it necessary to heavily edit when writing - up to, and including, this comment. I don’t mind it, and I don’t mind doing it to other people’s writing either, so this new way of doing things appeals to me.

I’d be interested to hear what anyone who’s able one-shot their writing thinks of this. I feel like that type of person may have less of a desire for this kind of stuff?

[sho_hn]

> I’d be interested to hear what anyone who’s able one-shot their writing thinks of this. I feel like that type of person may have less of a desire for this kind of stuff?

Yep. I don't use spell-checking and I don't use auto-complete bars on phone keyboards, largely because I feel it keeps my skills sharp. I would use tools like the article describes when I deem them to have become necessary to stay competitive at what I do, but at the moment I don't feel it's clear-cut whether their use would promote or harm my faculties to write.

[oliverbennett]

That makes sense. What the long-term effects of such 'performance enhancing' tools might mean for how its users think, or externalise those thoughts, is hard to call.

I also wonder what it means if everyone is farming out parts of their intellect to similar models, which might be limited pathologically, by training data or enforcement.