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by locusofself 31 days ago
This might be an unpopular thing to do, but lately I've been literally having claude/chatgpt write books for my personal consumption: things to brush up interview skills, python, system design, and even agentic coding. I've also had it aggregate substack posts for me, etc.

I have it generate an ePub file, and drag and drop it to my kindle.

It's a great way to take information with me, out for a long walk where I can focus on it and absorb it.

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I recommend using internet archive to access free texts for ereaders. LLMs will be trained on these texts already, it is better to get it straight from the source.
How are you sure that it hasn't hallucinated content that you end up relying on?