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Tag: critical friend

Claude, help me to write

Nov 18, 2023

in AI, Writing

academic writing, argument, blogging, critical feedback, critical friend, feedback, large language model, LLM, peer review, premises, process, prompt, prompt design, review, writing, writing coach, writing process

Yesterday I published a post describing my concerns with how universities are responding to the new paradigm of expertise-on-demand that’s facilitated by generative AI. At the end of that post I noted that I wrote it collaboratively with Claude, and this post describes what that process (kind-of) looked like. I also want to be clear…
Claude, tell me why I’m wrong

Nov 5, 2023

in AI

critical friend, example, position, use-case

One of my favourite use-cases for LLMs is to ask them to point out the weaknesses in my position. We all have blind spots, and when you’re working from within a paradigm it can be very difficult to see what those blind spots are. The prompts I use look something like this: I need to…