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To be honest, I hated writing essays in English classes because I felt like I'm forced to write BS to fill up the space when my argument can be summed up in several bullet points.

Since I'm not a student anymore, I can just give ChatGPT a few bullet points and ask it to write a paragraph for me. As an engineer who doesn't like writing "fluff", it's great I can now outsource the BS part of writing.

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As an engineer I'd hope you wouldn't have to write fluff. Brevity (while retaining full content) should be praised.

I'm interested what parts of your job require the fluff? Is it communication with non engineering teams?

Not necessarily technical writings but more like emails to ask for something, emails to decline something or even a birthday card.

It's also great for writing a professional sounding complaint letter to your utility company.

A lot of people seem to think that details that other people think are relevant are actually "fluff."

Yep it's great for work emails. Incoming too, since they can summarize a long email into bullet points.

The future is people typing bullet points, expanding into polished prose for transmission, and compressing down to bullet points on the other end.

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