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Thoughtful video by writing teacher. He says they're good for finding punctuation, grammar, spelling issues, but not good at the writing part. If I had to summarize him, I'd say, he thinks AI is at best a good copy editor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zetz...

I couldn’t get myself to write LinkedIn postings like ChatGPT does.

Helped me occasionally with some legalese. „Normal” writing - not so much. Kinda like with coding - helpful when you are new to a target tech stack, annoying if you are reasonably proficient

I've been using Grammarly for several years now. I find it the least invasive way of writing with AI, while it adds lots of value. Also, the browser plugin integration is awesome.

Nice article! Personally I write a blog or two per month and have multiple models a try to help with the process, but didn’t feel it was worth the prompt engineering and back & forth to get a result that I could have written anyways :) today’s LLM’s just aren’t too creative imo

I used it a bit when writing my newest book (Real World Java) by giving it the ideas I had for a chapter and asking for more. Found a few I missed that way. And a bunch of silly/wrong suggestions. (3/3)

I have it help me with some of the social media posts for @nyjavasig to add fun (2/3)

I’ve used it a couple times with the CodeRanch newsletter. It’s good at translating what I speak from standard English to western speak “y’all come down to the watering hole and learn…”. I had to do a little editing after where it changed the meaning but came out better/faster then manual (1/2)

I'll sometimes use it for a second level of grammar/typo checking when my eyes are tired and I don't trust Grammarly. But you have to really force it to report >everything< it notices in a single prompt rather than share selective findings each time.