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Why is everyone compelled to write one of these articles? Do they think that their workflow is so unique that they've unlocked the secret to harnessing the power of a pattern generator? Every single one of these reads like influencer vomit.

My workflow hasn't changed since 2022: 1. Send some data. 2. Review response. 3. Fix response until I'm satisfied. 4. Goto 1.

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It is OK. I actually love looking around other people’s work. Perhaps, I will never follow exactly but one a while, I get the gotchas where I can steal and adapt to mine. Let it be, let people express. If not for the veterans with years of experience, people coming in recently should find these things something to read up and learn.

> Why is everyone compelled to write one of these articles?

LinkedIn clout.

> Do they think that their workflow is so unique that they've unlocked the secret to harnessing the power of a pattern generator?

Yes, just like everyone were thinking their .vimrc was amazing 20 years ago. It is vomit.

Posting .vimrc was actually great. You can quickly scan it to find interesting bits, then you may add those bits in your config.

Now there’s nothing to pick or compare. Just vibes and my shamanic dance is twistier than yours.

I think your take is overly negative. Regardless of what they think, sharing ones experiences with others is how we advance, both as individuals and as a community/mankind. Talking about AI workflows, I am personally interested in how the people who are happy working with AI work, so that I could also be happier with my work. If they write their workflow, I can either learn from it and improve my work, or learn that they are doing something completely different from what I do, which might explain the disparity between people's experiences with AI, or learn that they are spouting nonsense, reaffirming that it might really be mostly hype. Either way, each one of these is a net positive information for me.

Documenting what I do is fun and relaxing and for me so I write. Only time I had to share mine was to a friend who wanted was getting into coding lately. https://www.nadeem.blog/writing/workflows

Ed Zitron's latest piece has a great take on this - basically yes, they thing they've unlocked a great secret and they think they are very smart, when instead they are actually doing the work for LLM, while giving LLM the credit for the outputs of their work.

Nobody writes about their work thinking the whole world will read it. They write it for their friends, maybe a small group of regular readers, also for themselves. I for one really like it, even if I get bored after reading 5 similar articles, because maybe someone will only ever read one of them, and it’ll help them improve their own work.

I mean, that argument doesn't hold water when you then post it on HN and Reddit.

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