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Interesting, are you being literal about requesting 20 ways of saying the same thing? It seems pretty excessive and I'm actually impressed that asking an LLM to rewrite a statement 20 times yields output that isn't excessively redundant. Does the LLM do a pretty good job reading your mind, or do you still find yourself manually piecing together pieces from the 20 suggestions into a satisfactory sentence?

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Yep, I literally ask it to say it in 20 different ways. Sometimes a sentence structure or a combination of words will just work better. The goal is usually to simplify a sentence without losing meaning.

I don't expect the LLM to read my mind. The unit of work is too small for intent to matter, and I'll just steer the next recommendations in a direction as needed.

Most of the suggestions are crap, but they can contain the seeds of a good sentence.

And this beats just writing the piece yourself?

I can’t speak for them, but I do this occasionally. Every now and then among the propositions there are one or two that did not come to my mind and that are actually quite good. I still write the whole thing myself, I just ask for advice occasionally.

How did you understand this as not writing the piece myself?

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