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> Most writers have already realized that LLMs can't write in any meaningful way.

I know a professional writer who is amazed by what LLMs are capable of already and, given the rate of progress, speculates they will take over many writing jobs eventually.

> If you use GPT-4 day-to-day, you've probably encountered this sense of a capability wall before.

Of course there is a wall with the current models. But almost every time I hit a wall, I have found a way to break past that limit. Interacting with the LLM as I would interact with a person. LLM's perform best with chain of thought reasoning. List out any issues you identified in the original output, ask the LLM to review these issues and list out any other issues that it can identify based on the original requirements, then rewrite it all. And do that several times until it's good enough.

At work I have found GPT-4 to exceed the linguistic capabilities of my colleagues when it comes to summarizing complicated boring business text.



> And do that several times until it's good enough

Or just write the damn thing yourself.


What if this is a boring business text summary task that takes additional hours of my time at work? Why should I waste my time? I have better things to do. I can leave early while you sit there at work typing like a fool.




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