Maybe dyslexia can cause that (dunno, I’m not a psych or dyslexic), but anecdotally my dyslexic teacher never seems to have problems wording or explaining things more than any other person. It’s just really obvious when she’s reading aloud from something and starts tripping and mixing up words, and her handouts have weird typos and autocorrect issues that she didn’t see. But she is extremely vocally opinionated on some high level topics, haha.
But I hear the sentiment you’re saying, for people that genuinely do struggle to express the sentiment they’re wanting to convey, I’m sure it’s helpful. I guess the question is, are (general) you doing it because you can’t do it yourself or because you want instant gratification? The process of articulating your thoughts is an important part of understanding them more thoroughly, and that ability will atrophy just due to how brains work if you stop doing it.
Hell, there’s even middle ground here. Set an amount of time to spend on it and really, genuinely try to write it. Even if it’s nothing but bullet point ideas. Then after spending that time struggling, if it’s not usable (just usable! Not perfect!) then send it through the AI, if (general) you must.
Ah yeah, sorry, the dyslexia part is a separate issue to formulating sentences. So, he’ll write a sentence and then often have mistyped words + might separately have formulation issues. Running it through an LLM can fix both of those, so it’s kind of worth doubly for him to do.
The process of articulating your thoughts is an important part of understanding them more thoroughly
Yeah, I recently told that same colleague that it took me hours to formulate a few short sentences on our webpage to describe a software that we’re building. And then he hit me again with him finding AI helpful for that.
I had to get back to him on that a few days later, because it wasn’t the putting-into-concrete-words part that took me so long. It was the what-the-fuck-do-i-even-want-to-say-here part. We’d been building this software for three years and no one had sat down to properly break down what it is that the software is able to do and in which situations it is useful.
What I described as “formulating” was really:
brainstorming
clustering ideas into concrete concepts
eliminating imprecision in my own understanding of the problem domain and our solution (at one point, I even genuinely had to open up our source code to remind myself how our software works)
and well, kind of just keeping notes as I go…?
That’s the thing, the actual putting-into-concrete-words part always just feels like I’m keeping track of my current understanding. If I had to do it all in my head, so that I can outsource the putting-into-concrete-words to a machine, it would certainly not make it faster, but rather make this thought process impossible for me.
Maybe dyslexia can cause that (dunno, I’m not a psych or dyslexic), but anecdotally my dyslexic teacher never seems to have problems wording or explaining things more than any other person. It’s just really obvious when she’s reading aloud from something and starts tripping and mixing up words, and her handouts have weird typos and autocorrect issues that she didn’t see. But she is extremely vocally opinionated on some high level topics, haha.
But I hear the sentiment you’re saying, for people that genuinely do struggle to express the sentiment they’re wanting to convey, I’m sure it’s helpful. I guess the question is, are (general) you doing it because you can’t do it yourself or because you want instant gratification? The process of articulating your thoughts is an important part of understanding them more thoroughly, and that ability will atrophy just due to how brains work if you stop doing it.
Hell, there’s even middle ground here. Set an amount of time to spend on it and really, genuinely try to write it. Even if it’s nothing but bullet point ideas. Then after spending that time struggling, if it’s not usable (just usable! Not perfect!) then send it through the AI, if (general) you must.
Ah yeah, sorry, the dyslexia part is a separate issue to formulating sentences. So, he’ll write a sentence and then often have mistyped words + might separately have formulation issues. Running it through an LLM can fix both of those, so it’s kind of worth doubly for him to do.
Yeah, I recently told that same colleague that it took me hours to formulate a few short sentences on our webpage to describe a software that we’re building. And then he hit me again with him finding AI helpful for that.
I had to get back to him on that a few days later, because it wasn’t the putting-into-concrete-words part that took me so long. It was the what-the-fuck-do-i-even-want-to-say-here part. We’d been building this software for three years and no one had sat down to properly break down what it is that the software is able to do and in which situations it is useful.
What I described as “formulating” was really:
That’s the thing, the actual putting-into-concrete-words part always just feels like I’m keeping track of my current understanding. If I had to do it all in my head, so that I can outsource the putting-into-concrete-words to a machine, it would certainly not make it faster, but rather make this thought process impossible for me.