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Readers would have been better served with the prompts you wrote than the AI generated output.



I don't think that's true. What matters to me is the human editorial touch: I don't want to wade through 50 prompts and responses, I want a human author to have resolved that process into a final output that they think is worth sharing with me.


I think the correct benchmark is `len()`. Give me your prompts or your output, whichever is shorter.


No


Try reading a manuscript copy of a book before it’s been edited. Yes I know some people do this out of interest but for most people it’s not the type of writing they are interested in reading or would get the most out of.


All ~50 prompts would take you have an hour to read and wouldn’t bring across my point nearly as good.


But it would provide a better illustration of how you’re actually working.


If you're interested in seeing the process behind this piece of writing you can read through a lot of the details in the 71 commits that went into creating the story in the PR: https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/pull/106/commits


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