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Re:Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all by nlawalker on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:33PM (#47390357)
Same, it's the push that gets the ball rolling down the hill.

>clearly expressing what I mean

I have use for it here too - I use it like a "power thesaurus" when I've got the feeling that the word I have doesn't have quite the right connotation, or to test out different versions of rephrasing something when I feel it could flow better or be clearer but I can't quite get my finger on it. But I don't just take output and paste it, I use it like a pair programmer for writing, where I'm the driver and the AI is the observer.

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Re:Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all by borski on Sunday March 15, 2026 @02:37PM (#47390403)
Neat! Similar to how I use it, but I find looking for the right word to be a lot of mental fun, so I don’t use it for that purpose as much. But yeah, “pair programmer for writing” is exactly right.
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