Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good LLM
wickedwonderer · reddit · 2026-10-21
An essay riffing on Dylan Thomas argues the question is no longer whether to use AI in creative work but how to adapt without surrendering human creativity. Using the tractor analogy, the author advocates AI as an accelerator rather than outsourcing whole arguments, warns of unreliability and prompt-dependence, and concludes with a resolve to harness AI rather than be overshadowed by it.
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