The key to working with your timid scribe is understanding its strengths and limitations. My experience with AI so far has shown me that AI is brilliant at:

1. Pulling out ideas I didn't know I had (by asking me smart questions)


2. Creating structure from my scattered thoughts


3. Remembering all the context and examples I've shared


4. Generating options when

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Let me share an example of the sort of power that gets unleashed when you take a deeply liberal attitude towards LLMs. Last week, in Protocolized, I published a story called The Signal Under Innsmouth. This has been my best attempt at AI-assisted fiction writing to date, and also one of the easiest. I simply fed the original story (The Shadow Over... See more