Jasmine Sun

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827 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Hard Fork · ‘A.I.-Washing’ Layoffs? + Why L.L.M.s Can’t Write Well + Tokenmaxxing · 20 Mar 2026 podcast

Yeah.

I mean, I think it's definitely interesting and true that people don't want to like AI writing.

And that is part of what bothers them when they see AI text that is obviously AI, even though, like you said, like in these quizzes and tests, AI can outperform human writers in those narrow scenarios.

I mean, my quibble with a lot of these quizzes and tests is that like, as a writer, and you guys are writers too, how much of your job is actually text generation?

I think AI is a superhuman text generator, right?

My job, I am generating text probably 25% of the hours in my day.

I spend a lot of time interviewing people.

I spend a lot of time coming up with ideas.

I spend a lot of time reading and not just reading indiscriminately, but like reading very particular sources that feel like the right ones.

And so like, you know, usually at the point that you are doing one of these tests, you're saying like, generate like one paragraph very specifically about like,

why Trump won the 2016 election, 500 words or less.

And you've already given the prompt, which I think is a critical part of writing, is what are you going to write about?

You've often supplied some of the evidence and the guidance in the form of it, saying 500 words or less.

And at that point, I do think that AI is probably a better text generator than almost all humans are.

But again, when I think about it,

You know, AI is still very bad at coming up with ideas for articles.

It is still very bad at reporting.

The non-text generation parts of the role feel further away from automation.

Again, like I'm not a never say, like I'm sort of like never say never, like maybe I'll get there.

I would be totally happy if, you know, Claude was able to give me good ideas for my next essays, but it's not there yet.

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