Comment by gizajob

It was really interesting in having an assistant who was completely on the ball and up to speed, never forgot, could pick up from where we left off days ago, could produce and summarise arguments… but the issue was that the amazing assistant could only really work one chapter at a time even with a plan, and changing one chapter would often break things said in other chapters, and their style of writing was such that the resorted to cliches, bad metaphors, and generally bad or repetitive prose. So the grammar was fine, the style was bad to the point where the whole work would not be something I could have my name on or near. I really could come back to it, just having to retype everything in markdown made me see that the project had legs and the topic is sufficient for a book length treatment, but even with the help of Claude I have a few months work to do to get it done and out there. Just it’s a different few months work to the work I would have had without Claude. I could also have attempted to pay Claude thousands of dollars to see if it worked better, but the book is not likely to recoup what that would cost.