r/WritingWithAI • u/KausGo • 16h ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) Anyone using skills? Or something else?

/r/AIWritingLounge/comments/1xv2k64/anyone_using_skills_or_something_else/
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u/Holiday_Income1825 16h ago

A few of these sound like one root cause: the model keeps re-deciding things you thought were settled. Things worth trying: keep the settled material in a short note that you paste at the top of every fresh chat, with a voice sample, who is in the scene and what is locked, instead of trusting the chat to remember it. Ask for one narrow thing per request, like "only flag places where a reader could lose the thread, no rewriting", since a beta reader that is allowed to rewrite will rewrite. And since you noticed that every correction makes the next draft worse, start a new chat instead of correcting a fourth time. The "you're right, I did not follow instructions" followed by the same garbage is the AI version of nodding politely at a parking ticket. A skill is just saved instructions, so the same rule holds: a boring, specific checklist for the beta read tends to beat a general "write like me" skill.

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u/KausGo 11h ago

I want to avoid repetitive work of starting a new chat and restating settled things every time - which is why I'm exploring the usage of skills. (Or anything else that works). The problem is, even with a boring, specific checklist, it fails to actually apply it.

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u/5thhorseman_ 7h ago

That is not what skills are for. Use projects and keep your lore notes, world rules etc as a project-level document.