While people are all excited shout using LLMs to write - which is awesome, I am all about AI empowering people to do things they didn’t have the agency to do, writing being one of them - I am imploring y’all to get the LLMs to write more concisely. I am looking at all y’all Substack writers with my sternest Strunk & White spectacles.
The number one use case I have for AI, used countless times a day, is “wow, my digital brochacho, this is really long and convoluted. Can you rewrite this to be more to the point and shorter? What are they trying to say?” There’s a lot of content out there that I want to read because I can smell that there’s something interesting in it, but it comes wrapped in a thick layer of concrete that I have to chip away at.
It works amazing well, but is an odd “your AI is talking to my AI” step.
And LinkedIn hustlers. Come on now. Just tell the LLM to note wrote like a LinkedIn post and cut it with the staccato one line paragraph thing. Please stop tommy gunning me with your life and career advice. You’re allowed a one line paragraph per 1,200 words. No need to be LinkedIn Hemingway.