Comment by _verandaguy
5 days ago
Why would you need copilot for blogging? Isn't the whole appeal of a blog that it's something you, a human created?
5 days ago
Why would you need copilot for blogging? Isn't the whole appeal of a blog that it's something you, a human created?
Personally, I’m a lot better at recognizing good writing than producing it, and LLMs are great at being a “calculator for words.”[1] Writing posts became a lot easier once I got an automated editor I could tell to “break up this run-on sentence to make it less confusing” or “rearrange these paragraphs so I introduce concepts before I start using them”. The end result is still the same, but this way I save a lot of time I used to spend glaring at Roget, Strunk, and White.
[1] https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/2/calculator-for-words/#c...
Copilot is helpful for handing formatting and repetitive structural stuff. It doesn't need to actually create the content to be useful.
I found it very useful for proofreading. It's easier than copying/pasting the content into ChatGPT or similar, as it's right in the editor. I disabled the autocomplete though, as I found it breaks my flow of thoughts
(Wrote about this: https://stanislas.blog/2025/02/writing-workflow-llm/)