[Nevermark]

The best way to improve your writing with AI isn't to have it write for you.

Nor is it to have the AI clean up your writing.

The best method is write, and when you hit a wall, or might even be done, ask the model "Do not rewrite this, but read it, step back and consider it as a whole, then tell me what strikes you, what works, what could use some work."

Then create another draft. Repeat until neither you or the model see much to improve, or you don't consider the remaining model critiques convincing given your greater understanding of the context.

Use the model's expertise to raise the bar on the quality of writing you do that day. And you will have raised the quality you expect and get from yourself going forward.

If it is really important, then once you are convinced you are "done", have the model make a complete rewrite as it sees best. After all that writing, anything that improves at that point will pop, and you won't forget it.

Any important task should be used to improve one's skills. With a model or without. That's the healthy frame of mind for using models.

[mock-possum]

LLM writing is also a pretty good angle of attack against the existential horror that is the blank page - if you can’t think of what to write, generate something, and then set yourself the task of at least creating something better than that.

Very good way to break yourself out of the inertia of “I don’t know how to get started” in my experience.

[emodendroket]

A lot of my writing is informational, for work, and I do find it pretty helpful to just ask an AI model "is there anything unclear about this document or questions a reader is likely to have?"

[jmbwell]

I find this really effective. Also, “ask me questions about this one at a time until I say to stop”