I’m not trying to be a dick, but honestly, why would I read this? Why would someone in your audience be interested in reading something you barely had a hand in creating?
Thanks for the question - two reasons: i) they give a bit of extra context on ideas that I reference regularly (so I can also link back to them as short explainers) and ii) they’re kind of a public experiment that people can skim to get a sense for how to make their own AI-assisted briefs.
Until last week my most popular post was entirely LLM-generated 🤷🏻♂️ I have a long ways to go as a writer and these tools are, frankly, a useful means to improve
In order to be mindful of people’s preferences, Engine Room is its own, separate section that folks can opt out of and still receive my organic stuff
I appreciate you being candid. I’m open to the possibility that I’m just behind the times here and this kind of thing is going to become much more common.
But, surely, if you have a long way to go as a writer, the only way to get better would be to… write more… no? If there’s something about this book and its ideas that you find interesting or instructive in a way that you’ll elaborate on down the line, why not just… write about that? What’s the point of having a substack page where people can read your writing if you can’t be bothered to write?
It’s cool to give people examples of what you view as a well constructed prompt, but, again, if you feel like you have some degree of expertise or insight in to how to do that well, why not write about that in more detail? And include the examples as appendages to your own original thoughts and ideas?
FWIW you might look in to “digital gardens”, if you don’t already have one. One of those seems like more natural places for this kind of content than a platform specifically made for posting original writing.
These are all good points and something like a backend digital garden might be a better option. Will stew on it. To your third question here, I hope people don't come here to read because it's *me* that wrote these things, but that people happen to like what there is to read.
There's a tension here between experimenting vs. meeting demand. I'm very interested in how LLMs are used and it's better IMO to learn by using them IRL... at least to a point.
There is a real risk of creating a bona fide slop machine and that isn't what I'm after. It's quite possible that the Engine Room experiment isn't found by subscribers to be a useful tool, at which point it'll return below deck!
I’m not trying to be a dick, but honestly, why would I read this? Why would someone in your audience be interested in reading something you barely had a hand in creating?
Thanks for the question - two reasons: i) they give a bit of extra context on ideas that I reference regularly (so I can also link back to them as short explainers) and ii) they’re kind of a public experiment that people can skim to get a sense for how to make their own AI-assisted briefs.
Until last week my most popular post was entirely LLM-generated 🤷🏻♂️ I have a long ways to go as a writer and these tools are, frankly, a useful means to improve
In order to be mindful of people’s preferences, Engine Room is its own, separate section that folks can opt out of and still receive my organic stuff
I appreciate you being candid. I’m open to the possibility that I’m just behind the times here and this kind of thing is going to become much more common.
But, surely, if you have a long way to go as a writer, the only way to get better would be to… write more… no? If there’s something about this book and its ideas that you find interesting or instructive in a way that you’ll elaborate on down the line, why not just… write about that? What’s the point of having a substack page where people can read your writing if you can’t be bothered to write?
It’s cool to give people examples of what you view as a well constructed prompt, but, again, if you feel like you have some degree of expertise or insight in to how to do that well, why not write about that in more detail? And include the examples as appendages to your own original thoughts and ideas?
FWIW you might look in to “digital gardens”, if you don’t already have one. One of those seems like more natural places for this kind of content than a platform specifically made for posting original writing.
These are all good points and something like a backend digital garden might be a better option. Will stew on it. To your third question here, I hope people don't come here to read because it's *me* that wrote these things, but that people happen to like what there is to read.
There's a tension here between experimenting vs. meeting demand. I'm very interested in how LLMs are used and it's better IMO to learn by using them IRL... at least to a point.
There is a real risk of creating a bona fide slop machine and that isn't what I'm after. It's quite possible that the Engine Room experiment isn't found by subscribers to be a useful tool, at which point it'll return below deck!