“I have a council of clods… one who's like a hardcore LLM skeptic… another… a sort of futurist… they point out things I should revise.”

Uncanny Valley | WIRED · Kevin Roose Didn’t Use AI to Write His Book About AI

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Created a “council of clods” - a set of personas (LLM skeptic, futurist, etc.) that review drafts and give targeted feedback

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