[burnished]

Was this article AI written?

This is exactly the same format of argument that convinced me as a learner to use notepad++ for years, which I now believe to be a garbage idea. IDEs provide so much important contextual information - a copilot program to show you different techniques would be helpful in a similar vein.

Caveat: chatGPT is a chat program, that it can produce working code in places is a coincidence, it would not be appropriate for this use

[antonvs]

> the same format of argument that convinced me as a learner to use notepad++ for years

Offtopic, but there was a time when that wasn't an entirely specious argument: back when most major IDEs were very heavyweight and bloated, think Eclipse or Netbeans.

They've improved an enormous amount since then, both in their performance and general UX, as well as in the important assist features they provide, to the point that if you're not using those today, you're definitely hampering your productivity.

There's some relevance to the current situation, which is that these AIs are certainly going to improve, probably very rapidly.

> Caveat: chatGPT is a chat program, that it can produce working code in places is a coincidence

Is it? OpenAI has the Codex models - https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/codex :

> The Codex models are descendants of our GPT-3 models that can understand and generate code. Their training data contains both natural language and billions of lines of public code from GitHub.

...but I don't know how/if those might be integrated into ChatGPT.

[nkko]

We are trying to build a workflow and it goes like this: - we sketch the general idea for the article in Notion - we use ChatGPT to expand on the topic and explore contrarian perspectives to validate the idea - I do the final edit and use Grammarly and Quilbot to ensure clarity and fluency - result goes onto our 400k subs newsletter (from a 1mil list of our users who opened any of our newsletters at least once) - feedback is used to improve on the idea which goes on our blog

From the content creator's perspective, AI tools are of immense help. Finally, we as a small team can allow ourselves to find time and create content instead of being stuck in a constant development loop.

[burnished]

Let me give you some direct feedback on this then - it reads as 'content' and not an article. ChatGPT seems to blow out word count in a fluent way but the resultant text seems to have much lower information density, the sort of thing you might expect from a student learning to write paragraphs. Genuinely I asked if it was AI generated because it felt like filler.

Perhaps you need an editing down phase?