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by BurningFrog 17 days ago
Haven't done it, but letting an AI polish a manual first draft might be the best of both worlds?
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It tends not to improve things. Besides the generally bland and muddied style, and the low-fidelity reinterpretation of your points, they also have a habit of randomly deleting sentences that didn't spark joy for them but were actually important.

I've found them useful to review docs for factual consistency and potential sources of confusion, but the correct workflow from that point is IMO to correct the draft yourself and then say "better now?"

When the LLM decides to drive-by rephrase me when making a functional change it drives me up the wall haha.

Woah woah woah human, you can't just say there are "far too many" pipes with similar names to abbreviate their labels, the most I'll allow you is a "large number".

The "polish" is the worst part!