SemiAnalysis has calculated how big that gap really is. After testing subscription tiers from both OpenAI and Anthropic – running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly...
I have read a lot of books and do analyze my work in terms of techniques and principles I’ve studied over the years. However, even top professional writers don’t work in a vacuum. TV writers, for example, have “the room” with a team of professional writers, producers, etc. weighing in on all writing decisions. For indies, you don’t have that luxury, and even getting another human who is good at writing to read what you wrote and share detailed feedback is hard, especially when said humans aren’t getting paid to do it full time. Asking friends and family to critique your writing will often result in them trying to spare your feelings, whereas Qwen will happily rip your work to shreds and not care if it just shit all over your passion project.
Do you have a flat rate sub to Qwen? I’m curious if you fed it something that you personally think is great writing that isn’t prominent training data, that you are intimately familiar with, and what you would make of its analysis?
My fear is two-fold: first, writing is communication between people with shared experiences. An LLM can’t really tell if someone’s going to have an emotional connection to your writing or why or what or how it works. Second, novelty and rule-breaking is highly context dependant. I’d be worried an LLM is merely steering me into probable lanes instead of allowing me to develop my own unique voice.
I have read a lot of books and do analyze my work in terms of techniques and principles I’ve studied over the years. However, even top professional writers don’t work in a vacuum. TV writers, for example, have “the room” with a team of professional writers, producers, etc. weighing in on all writing decisions. For indies, you don’t have that luxury, and even getting another human who is good at writing to read what you wrote and share detailed feedback is hard, especially when said humans aren’t getting paid to do it full time. Asking friends and family to critique your writing will often result in them trying to spare your feelings, whereas Qwen will happily rip your work to shreds and not care if it just shit all over your passion project.
Do you have a flat rate sub to Qwen? I’m curious if you fed it something that you personally think is great writing that isn’t prominent training data, that you are intimately familiar with, and what you would make of its analysis?
My fear is two-fold: first, writing is communication between people with shared experiences. An LLM can’t really tell if someone’s going to have an emotional connection to your writing or why or what or how it works. Second, novelty and rule-breaking is highly context dependant. I’d be worried an LLM is merely steering me into probable lanes instead of allowing me to develop my own unique voice.