| ▲ | benbalter 21 hours ago | |
> I'm curious how much you think lessons and practices from say, 2012 or 2014 are holding up so far in a rapidly changing post-AI environment. I didn't touch too much on AI in the book itself (since it's changing so quickly), but it was interesting to reflect that the fundamentals of 2012/2014 (Markdown, URLs, APIs, etc.) carry double the weight when we start thinking about machine readability. > It seems to be listed on multiple outlets, I'm curious how much that part of the process was able to be handled by agents vs being done manually. Entirely manual, and I suspect that's by design. I've never published a book before, so I did ask (non-agentic) AI questions about the process (should I use service X or service Y, should I do a pre-sale, etc.). > And I do recommend applying a much stronger human-in-the-loop editing process to any material meant to market this book (and of course the book itself). 100% human in the loop. I wanted the public-facing presence to be reader-centric, not marketing/author centric, which I felt was the norm LLMs are trained on. > Prior experience and taste are all we have left in this new era. +100. I held the book to a much higher standard than I do musing I randomly post on the internet that hardly anyone reads. (I didn't expect this to get so much attention). I'm going to take another pass at both the post and the site tonight. Thanks for the feedback. | ||