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A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT

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323 points timbilt | 1 comments | 13 Nov 24 19:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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RobinL ◴[13 Nov 24 19:44 UTC] No.42129191[source]▶
I think this is pretty good advice.

I think often AI sceptics go too far in assuming users blindly use the AI to do everything (write all the code, write the whole essay). The advice in this article largely mirrors - by analogy - how I use AI for coding. To rubber duck, to generate ideas, to ask for feedback, to ask for alternatives and for criticism.

Usually it cannot write the whole thing (essay, program )in one go, but by iterating bewteen the AI and myself, I definitely end up with better results.

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1. cyrillite ◴[13 Nov 24 21:22 UTC] No.42130127[source]▶
This iterative process hasn’t led to better results than my best effort, but it has led to 90% of my best in a fraction of the time. That’s especially true if I have curated a list of quotes, key phrases, and research literature I know I want to use directly or pull from.