Comment by estearum
11 hours ago
Seems much harder to learn how to write how you never write, versus just learning to speak to a computer the same way you speak to anything else.
11 hours ago
Seems much harder to learn how to write how you never write, versus just learning to speak to a computer the same way you speak to anything else.
A lot of people on the autism spectrum can have issues with speaking or speaking speed, but have no such barrier necessarily to typing speed.
I'd imagine there's a statistically large number of people that meet that criteria on this website.
I mean we don't need to do any epidemiological studies here or anything.
If someone hasn't tried it, they should. It's probably quite different from how they're expecting, might be great, and costs basically nothing. Try it for a few days and if it doesn't work in your workflow, obviously don't do it.
But I have encountered many many people who raised these exact same arguments against trying it, then tried it, and were hooked within days. Exactly 0% of people I've ever convinced to try it decided it just wasn't for them and went back to typing full-time.
The thought of talking drives me insane but you do you, boo-boo :)
What do you mean how you never write? You can just write what for want to say instead of saying it out loud. It is not a special skill, it's no different than how you write a message, just that you don't hit backspace to go back and correct things.
> it's no different than how you write a message, just that you don't hit backspace to go back and correct things.
Yes, that.
If you do that when writing to another person, you come off as blabbering, incoherent moron. Fortunately, very few people do that, because communicating with people who write like they talk is incredibly hard.
I'd worry about trying to do this on purpose; feels like the kind of "learning" that can easily spill over to non-LLM communication and make your life much harder.
There's a middle ground, though.
When shooting IM messages, people sometimes make typps
ypos*
typos**
there's an append-only procedure for fixing that, which I just demonstrated.
Also they don't always finish everything in one message
in fact a nice thing about IMs is being able to not use full sentences
that would work with LLMs, if not for the annoying "feature" that persists in most harnesses:
conversations take turns, and you can just send message after message - you have to wait for LLM to finish.
Correct, it's no different from how you normally write, except for the ways in which it is. We agree.
When you're making a big deal out of it being "much harder" because it's "how you never write" and they're saying that's just "not hitting backspace"? No, you don't agree.
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