Workflows
A workflow without a checking step ships its worst output
Any process that produces plausible results at volume will eventually produce a plausible wrong one, and…
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Aarav Sinha
Features writer, Prompt After Prompt
Aarav covers prompt craft, writing with ai, images & audio and the questions readers actually send in and thinks most subjects are more interesting once you know how they work.
Workflows
The step worth automating is the one whose failure you would notice
Automation decisions here turn less on how well the tool performs a task than on whether a wrong result…
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Pitfalls
Fluent, well organised and about nothing: the output to throw away
Some results are not improvable by editing because there is nothing underneath the prose, and learning to…
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Writing With AI
Translation lands the meaning and loses the register
Contemporary translation between well-resourced languages is accurate enough to mislead, because the errors…
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Workflows
Splitting a task can cost you the thing that held it together
Breaking work into steps is the standard advice and it has a real failure mode, because some tasks depend…
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Workflows
Run twenty before you run two thousand
A small deliberate pilot answers the questions that decide whether a batch job is worth running at all, and…
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Pitfalls
Right answer, wrong reasoning, and it breaks on the next case
Checking whether a result is correct is not the same as checking whether the method behind it was, and the…
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Pitfalls
The tells that survive into published work
A recognisable set of artefacts makes it out of the draft and onto the page, and most of them are removable…
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Images & Audio
Sound that sits under a voice has to be built to lose the argument
Generated music and effects are usable as background, and the properties that decide whether they work are…
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Pitfalls
A research answer arrives already sorted, and the sorting is the problem
Asking what is known about a subject returns a settled-sounding account, and what the settling removed is…
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Images & Audio
Removing something from a photograph changes what the photograph says
Generative editing applied to real pictures is technically the same operation whether it tidies a…
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Pitfalls
Explaining to a colleague why you did not use the tool for this one
Once assistance is assumed, choosing the slower method becomes a decision that has to be defended, and the…
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Pitfalls
An answer drawn from your own document can still come from somewhere else
Supplying the source material raises accuracy without guaranteeing it, and the failures that remain are a…
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