Just generally though: what we're seeing a ton of these days is people writing something and then passing it to an LLM with a request to improve it somehow, e.g. by fixing grammar, tightening the style, etc. In such cases, the answer to your question is that the "prompt" is (1) a first draft, and (2) an instruction to edit it.
It's clear, though, that the LLMs leave far more imprints on the text than most people realize, and that although they may have asked the LLM to restrict its edits to "just" X or Y, the actual changes to the text will often go beyond that.
How this will evolve over time is anyone's guess, of course.
Where some people are getting into trouble, at least in the HN context, is underestimating the impact that this has on their text. There's a big perception gap between the author's view ("fixed up the grammar a bit") and the reader's view ("this sounds entirely like an AI wrote it") in many cases. So many, in fact, that that's why I'm commenting about it. I'm no authority on any of this and don't want to sound like one, but this is such a common pattern at the moment that I feel confident reporting it.
I was always jealous of the 20% off concept, because there's so many jobs and places where I'd use that time to solve things nobody wants to "fund" within my org, sometimes there's some really dumb bug somewhere, or easy to solve for internal tooling need (I'm sure Google has had this resolved many a time internally) that could be met if I could even have two hours on a Friday to work on anything.
only a few companies like google had that imo. most companies cannot afford that.
I guess the idea is AI gives you back time so you could now do the 20% but you still really can't because you have to still think about it even if the code is generated? Not even sure after reading all that text what the idea is .
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