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Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by diego_sandoval on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:26PM (#50421067)
Am I the only one who uses AI for everything except writing?

I feel like it's still terrible at writing good prose, and I'm not even talking about fiction. But it's good at pretty much everything else.

Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by krainboltgreene on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:37PM (#50421117)
A lot of people don’t use LLMs for anything.
Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by hxugufjfjf on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:32AM (#50424169)
Which is wild to think of given how much and I others around me use it. Its literally doing more than half of my job that I did a year ago, freeing up so much time for more focused work.
Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by krainboltgreene on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:05PM (#50432127)
I had a peer do this and I saw no change in focus or productivity. They were very sure they were more productive.
Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by a96 on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:54AM (#50479372)
Most people, in fact. And even of the rest, most might "use" them very rarely for something like a web search at most. The news hype and our particular bubble just makes it look like it's everywhere.
Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by kqr on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:40PM (#50421134)
Or maybe it's just as good at writing as everything else, only writing is your strength, so you're more discerning with those results? I have suspected some kind of AI Gell-Mann for a while.
Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by tayo42 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:18AM (#50422632)
I have similar thoughts about how it writes and I'm at best an average writer.
Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry by InexSquirrel on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:11AM (#50421322)
I feel like the point of writing isn't the output, but to get your own thoughts in order. But perhaps that's just me writing for (effectively) myself, and not an audience.