Nicolas Cole says the best writers use AI to generate rough 80% drafts, then refine the remaining 20% themselves. AI works best on isolated tasks with clear inputs, not sprawling unstructured data. Feed it one piece at a time, review what it makes, and apply your taste to finish it.
What's really cool about AI is it can get you 80% of the way there. Where I think people go wrong is they have this expectation that AI is either 100% correct, no changes, or zero, it is worthless in terms of it generating a draft of something. What you'll notice is that AI tends to struggle with taking in lots of different steps at the same time, but when you isolate the variables, it can execute on one individual variable pretty well. And so what I wouldn't do is I wouldn't take a bunch of historical information, like maybe you have call recordings, you have previous materials that you've created, like you have a big bucket of stuff and then you just give it to AI and then you're sort of like, now figure out what to do with this. That's what would lead to like a more obscure outcome. Instead, if you break it apart into pieces, then absolutely you can use AI to accelerate each individual piece or each individual chapter. And then again, what's the value? Your value is the taste. So your taste is looking at the individual variables and going, okay, I like 80% of this, but I want to tweak this 20% to make it better. Yeah.
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