This morning, I put everything I have written into its context window and then gave it this prompt
I use Claude to help me with various writing tasks. Until 4.5, if I gave it a prompt like “write about x in my style” when giving it maybe 50k words in my style, it’d produce something only vaguely in the direction of how I write. Now, 4.5 is able to more reliably produce text that’s closer to my idiolect and regresses to the mean less, though not quite enough that I’d be happy passing of Claude’s output as my own.
(The actual way I usually use it is to help with editing by helping me get over blocks in what to say next. So I talk to it about what I’m trying to say, get it to draft text, and then use that as a starting point that I completely rewrite. I don’t claim to have a great flow here, but it at least lets me iterate rather than have to wander off and wait to get an idea about how to get through whatever is not working about the text.)
I use Claude to help me with various writing tasks. Until 4.5, if I gave it a prompt like “write about x in my style” when giving it maybe 50k words in my style, it’d produce something only vaguely in the direction of how I write. Now, 4.5 is able to more reliably produce text that’s closer to my idiolect and regresses to the mean less, though not quite enough that I’d be happy passing of Claude’s output as my own.
(The actual way I usually use it is to help with editing by helping me get over blocks in what to say next. So I talk to it about what I’m trying to say, get it to draft text, and then use that as a starting point that I completely rewrite. I don’t claim to have a great flow here, but it at least lets me iterate rather than have to wander off and wait to get an idea about how to get through whatever is not working about the text.)