I don't think writing is an "AI-complete" problem. It's just that the models are inefficient at it right now, due to training and/or architecture. Good writing requires thinking, reflection, and doing multiple passes. This currently translates to using a high reasoning effort and burning lots of tokens, but big AI labs like Anthropic are struggling with handling the load, so they're doing the exact opposite and finding whatever cheap trick they can to reduce token usage. One such trick is condensing ideas into as few tokens as possible, which in my opinion is one of the reasons Claude sucks so much at writing.

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vips7L 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> Good writing requires thinking, reflection, and doing multiple passes

Same with code, but that doesn't seem to matter anymore.

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ValentineC an hour ago | parent | next [-]

There's a lot of writing that is meant to be read by humans.

Code's ultimate goal, on the other hand, is to be run by computers.

	▲	vips7L 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I highly disagree. Code is still meant to be and still is read more by humans.

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jiraiyasarutobi 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's because it's cheaper to automate than pay a software engineer. The economics has to make sense. Writing is tricky. Prose quality isn't there yet for many genres. You can tell AI written prose apart. Maybe it won't matter. Maybe there is demand for it even. Or Maybe we will create genre specific finetunes if there is enough demand for it.

	▲	vips7L 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> That's because it's cheaper to automate than pay a software engineer For now. It also seems like we're still paying software engineers.