Zvi Mowshowitz: preference

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…It's been a while, and boy, a lot happened. Unbelievable. It's just crazy. And I know you're living it, and you're in the thick of it as much as just about anyone. First for starters today, with the incredible amount of information and activity in mind, I wanted to do a mundane utility check. How are you using AI to help keep up? Has it started to change your workflow beyond the Chrome extension that we talked about last time that automates very local operation type things? Or are you still kinda raw dogging it with your wetware in the skull? Fable has supercharged the extension to the extent that whenever there's anything it does anything I don't quite I just tell it exactly what went wrong and what I want it to do instead. And then that one command reliably just works. I presume Sol would also be good enough for this. I just I'm not doing it. The biggest other change is that AI editing is here. I used to not do an editing pass with the AI. It wasn't good enough to be worth it. Now I have Fable and sometimes Opus depending on how much I'm talking about cybersecurity and other related topics. And on one occasion, Opus 4.8 instead of five, go through the post and give me a list of here's all the typos, here's all of the conceptual errors, here's all of the facts I need to check. Here's, like, the things that are missing or that could be strengthened. Here's the things where I'd where it disagrees. And I found this to be very useful, and it makes the post better. It does make the post a little bit slower because it is actually just an extra step. I do everything I would have done until that point, and then I do this. But one reader messaged me, it's weird reading your post now that they don't have typos in them. They're taking a bit of getting used to. They are still the same post. And I'm like, yes. That's exactly what I had in mind. I experimented with also using Saul, but Saul failed what I call editor bench in the sense that Saul will say 99 confidence that you have this error here. And then at least half the time, it's wrong. And I can't handle that level of not and it's also very obnoxious about it is the other problem. Like, it it will tell you are wrong, this is how you have to state it, and this a blocker for publication. And, obviously, if I tweak the instructions on the project enough, I could get it to be more friendly and not be quite as obnoxious and do somewhat better. And I did some of that work, but I still found, okay. This is not giving me enough marginal benefit that it's worth the aggravation or additional time of having to sort through two of them after I'm ready to hit publish. So for now, I'll restart I should I'll retry Faster. I'm sure. But, like, for now, I'm just doing Fable slash Opus editing. And, of course, anytime I have a curiosity, I use it to digest papers, questions about papers, ask questions about policy documents, ask questions about people's statements when they're longer. I have research situations. What's up with this? Is this is this a especially when you're worried about, is something legitimate? Is something really happening? Is something kind of a joke? Is something about a claim? When Astra's claims came out, I had to investigate them in various ways. I had it summarized in various ways. That was very helpful. But the core thing is still being Rodolphe. I don't think we are anywhere close to a point where it can do any I mean, you wouldn't want to do any of the writing because the writing is how you think. But the core thing is still being Rodolphe. I don't think we are anywhere close to a point where it can do any I mean, you wouldn't want to do any of the writing because the writing is how you think. So even if it could produce the writing, which it can't, I would still want to produce the writing anyway. And my writing style was very unique, you know, I think it basically is post AI complete to reproduce even if it was okay or for me not to. I had substantially made me more productive. I do worry with the idea of there used to be a lot more kind of dead time opportunity to think, opportunity to sort of not have yourself so engaged in your situation involved in engaging in all of these activities. Right? Like, the whole, like, sword fighting, x k c d, my codes compiling. And, like, to to some extent, it's, well, Fables or GBT Pro is running, and I I have to wait for the result. But, like, there's always other things you can do with that. You can always start another instance. You can always like, you're doing all this context switching. You're doing all this focusing, and you're just trying to do everything so fast. You're just trying to have so many stuff running around in your head. Then sort of the the lower level stuff kind of bought you a buffer in which to think. And this is sort of the the object level version of the larger thing of people trying to do this, like, multi month, multi year sprint of everything is so urgent, you can never relax. And also, there's just so much more events coming at you. Like, you look back, like, you watch a movie set in twenty years ago, let alone fifty years ago, and you see so much time being spent on just physical travel, on tracking down records, on on doing these things where your brain is kind of getting a break, getting a chance to synthesize, kind of getting a chance to, like, slowly gather something up. And people are you know, I I wrote this biography of, you know, Linda b Johnson. So I I had to travel around the country and talk to all these people and look at all these archives and basically go through all these libraries. That it's a huge efficiency gain to not do that, but something is obviously lost. And so we need to fight to get that thing back in some ways.…

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