Friday, November 15, 2024

drafts – Better Tooling for LLM aided Editing?

Drafts -> LLM Critique -> Diff Tool Workflow Improvements?

In recent weeks, I’m doing a lot of writing where I use an LLM to critique my writing and improve it. (Part of Ship30For30 – see: https://mlevison.com/blog/drowningindocumentationwhendoweactuallygettowork/ as an example)

My Workflow is:

  • Write in Drafts
  • Send to ChatGPT for a big critique
  • Copy/Paste the Original and the ChatGPT version to BeyondCompare
  • Update in Drafts
  • Send to ChatGPT again
  • Send both Copies again to Beyond Compare
  • Update and Finish in Drafts

There are alot of manual steps and the comparison in BeyondCompare is difficult to read. In addition I don’t see any easy way to do a merge in BeyondCompare.
Shows Beyond Compare diffing LLM text with mine

Ideally, I would:

  • Write
  • Send to ChatGPT
  • Merge some changes back into mine
  • Work on my draft again
  • Send to ChatGPT
  • Final merge (usually small changes)

I don’t want the LLM to do my writing, nor do I blindly accept changes. This is about using a tool speed my writing process

What have you done successfully? What would you try to speed this along?

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