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I was expecting you would end this article with something like "Oh, by the way, this was writen by my AI assistant." So.. not much impressed

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Well said. I was also skeptical a couple years ago. My biggest moments of ‘this is a something burger’ was GPT 4 analytics and Claude III is blowing my mind.

The thing to keep in mind is that these tools will probably kinda suck in hindsight a year from now which is wild.

I use these tools every day in my workflow and the compounding I’ve seen is amazing

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AI is not replacing junior developers 🤣 how do you breed senior developers without junior developers?

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I feel like the internet (or my feeds atleast) are awash with AI gurus and their prompt hubs. What I’d really like to learn is prompt engineering and how to create my own. Is there learning you’d recommend for that or is it like writing where you just gotta try doing the thing?

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I'm a bit confused as to how to accomplish this fine-tuning and guiding given that the models (according to the one I just asked, at least) don't learn more about you over time. I get that they can refer back to the same conversation as long as it's continued and preserved, but it seems like you'd have to start that guidance/tuning over every time you interact with it. I'm sure this is a naive question given my lack of deeply engaging with the models. What am I missing?

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Thanks Nat. I agree. These tools have been massively useful in my life. I’m a solo entrepreneur and GPT is like have access to a full team. I’ve never used Claude Opus 3, but now I’m definitely gonna give it a go.

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Any recommendations for where to get started? I believe you recommended a course a few months back but of course I can't find it.

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I've been using ChatGPT as my accountability coach. I tell it my to-do list for the day, have it help me prioritize, and check in with it after I finish every task. It sounds so simple that it shouldn't be better than a regular to-do list, but I've found it incredibly effective.

Which reminds me - time to check in!

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Yes, AI is remarkable in its rapid writing ability. But, to say that "Maybe one day, writing will actually get worse if there's any human involved" omits the whole field of poetry. Current AI produces execrable verse, lines of utter banality pretending to poetry because they are metrical and rhymed. Good poetry is probably the most difficult of all writing, involving the whole person, with their years of experience and their emotions and thought, and requiring careful craft, technical precision and imagination. And I cannot imagine that AI will ever write with the power of a Yeats, an Eliot or a Wallace Stevens.

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