I've been doing something similar with my drafts (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2025/01/12/1730) but have found that if I follow the LLM's recommendations all the time my writing becomes bland and formulaic.
This email passed unit tests.
I would love gmail (or any mail composing tool) to trigger my defined list of unit tests whenever I click on "send". Something similar to OP. For me it would probably be:
- the email must be direct and concise
- the email must be respectful of the recipient and of anyone else would could read
- the email must use proper English
And the AI would give suggestions to reach the goals if some of them failed.
Human in the loop, I like it. Next step: real-time unit-texts!
Am I the only one who sees only the title on that page?
The irony is that the article now reads (more?) like AI slop. Which I suppose is to be expected. GenAI is really great at generating. Not so great at critical thinking, logic, correctness, etc
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Meta blogs—aka blogs about blogging—are a common theme on the Hacker News front page. So are blogs about making blogs.
I’m not denigrating anyone’s effort here, but the greatest trick behind blogging consistently is simply picking up the keyboard and starting to write. There’s no other secret sauce.
As you write more, you’ll find your own style and the set of methods that work for you. This is one thing I’ve learned from continuously putting out stuff[1] for the last six years.
LLMs can be helpful, but they aren’t a replacement for thought. Pretty, JS-infested sites are mostly a big time waster unless you’re writing about something interesting. The same goes for scripted processes. You write, read, edit, and hit publish. How many eyeballs your blog gets has little to do with how perfectly you nail your theme. More often than not, it’s a bit of luck and being authentic.
It took four years before my write-ups started hitting the front page here. That was never my intention. I wrote for myself, and some people eventually found it useful. I don’t follow any of these scripted processes and would rather focus on the topic than the process itself. Too much focus on the process and a little too little on the subject.
[1]: https://rednafi.com/