latest update on ai adventures of writer friend...
> friend: about to run some deep slop work and see where it goes
* 3 days later *
> friend: well this is working out way better than expected
>> me: oooh how so?
> friend:
absolutely tickled by how these llms currently seem to work better for lawyer-y tasks than they do for my friend who's been ghostwriting smut for the last 15+ years
specifically, she says:
> biggest pain point is the fact that output matters for writing but coders just care that the code works
> coders are fine with repetitive elements and inefficiently written statements, but when writing, the repetitive patterns turn into limericks after 300 words
> which then requires me to either prevent this at the input level by heavily seeding the inputs with non slop writing patterns or almost go through entire rewrites on the outputs
> the former means a 100k book might require 50k words of scaffolding
> the latter means i'm probably rewriting 75k by hand
and her comment today:
