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by kingkongjaffa 319 days ago
1. What do you do for work?

I'm a product manager.

2. Has AI been helpful? && 3. What tools have been the most helpful?

I use claude projects for lots of different use cases, and I use claude code to prototype simple features. It's generally helpful yes.

4. What tools have been the biggest letdown?

Writing quality.

I've tried:

- meta prompting (asking an LLM to make an LLM prompt to do the task)

- providing examples

- prompt engineering to reduce the amount of obvious LLM giveaways in writing style.

I can't get claude sonnet 4/opus 4 to write with any taste.

There are two things LLMs can't do well yet in my opinion:

- To my knowledge they haven't generated any new or novel insights in any field or topic.

- They haven't produced what I would perceive as high quality writing.

I'd love to see prompts that others feel have produced good writing.