Had a really good conversation with a colleague the other day as to why I don’t use AI a whole lot outside of when work mandates usage of AI.
If I come across a long blog post, I rarely read the whole post unless it’s written by an author I know from before or if it’s linked by someone who I know recommends good content. The attention span I have is slowly shrinking and I want to allocate it to a few things during the day.
Using AI gives me the same feeling. I write a few things as part of my prompt and now the ball is in my court to read the output. It’s usually 5 times longer than what I needed as the answer. Now I spend more time reading the output and see if it got everything right.
AI is getting better at solving this problem though. I came across this tool yesterday. A man in the middle which reads AI output and then asks the AI to be more concise with the output.
source & further reading
sunilshenoy.com — original article
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