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Peter McLennan's avatar

Great to have your perspective as a professional.

My experience mirrors yours, but at a much lower non-tech level. Claude helped this amateur writer considerably with refining a long form travel story, but initial wild enthusiasm devolved into skepticism as my interaction with the AI continued. Given the rapid, recent improvements, I’m still optimistic about the future.

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Cecily Carver's avatar

You're hardly an amateur writer! But yeah, the generative AI tools often seem pretty impressive at first, then reveal their weaknesses with more subtle/complex tasks.

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Christopher Mooney's avatar

Hi Cecily,

Have you taken this further since?

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Cecily Carver's avatar

I have left it as-is, rough around the edges (and stomping on formatting). Happy to share the script with you if you're interested.

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Christopher Mooney's avatar

Yes! I'm editing a whack of bone-dry reports by policy wonks and finding it hard to keep my eyes open for more than a paragraph. Need all the help I can get.

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Cecily Carver's avatar

I'm away from my computer until Sunday but will send!

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