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From what I've seen so far, the best writers (and, I suppose, the best _editors_) tend to get the best results from ChatGPT. I have seen some examples of people whose writing I already liked drive it in ways I never imagined; but like the author suggest "normies" tend to get piles of drivel.

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I mean, you can say

- "I really really hate this line"

- "I love that line a little bit, hmm actually I read it a bit more and it started to stink"

- "This line feels a little too Vogue"

- "Can we make this a little more Arnold in Kindergarten Cop"

And it will distill that into something distinctly actionable. You have an interface to communicate your edits in the lowest friction way ever exposed by mankind and people are still trying to enter a prompt and Ctrl+C Ctrl+V.

My experience, both writing and coding non-boilerplate so far, has been that this back and forth almost always takes longer than doing the work myself.

There are situations that's not true, namely information retrieval, but I've yet to find it highly practical beyond being a fun experience.

That's why there's room for all the tools everyone dismisses as prompt wrappers.

You can ask GPT-4 for code or you can use Co-Pilot and have it autocomplete as you type

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