Better tooling for LLM aided editing?

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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: Drowning in Documentation: When Do We Actually Get to Work? | Agile Pain Reliefs Experimentanl Blog 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.

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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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I don’t have BeyondCompare but this seems to indicate that it can do merging.

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Have you considerd using the LLM itself to create an edtiing tool?

I used Claude 3.5 with the TypingMind Interactive Canvas plugin - it created a working model of what you suggest immediately. You can iterate and add more features as desired.

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There’s a web app called Lex that Michael Masnick at Techdirt loves. He is a very good writer, so his word carries weight for me. I haven’t tried it yet.

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Mitch - thanks.

What is Lex? I’ve found a queer dating app (not what I"m looking for) and an Amazon Chatbot to answer customer queries.

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lex.page

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Thanks, I’ve signed up to try. It feels like Superhuman - with the pricing (hidden + $$), the command bar.

Curiously, it’s not easy (so far) to get to do what I was trying. On first attempt it’s closer to Grammarly. I want raw ChatGPT, because often it makes interesting word choices, that aren’t quite right for me but suggest something better.

In addition, I don’t love writing in a browser. (Too many lost words)

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