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House rules for using a model

🛠️ House rules for using a model

💡 Use Case

  • One page, written the Sunday after Rules for this vault, for the same reason: a rule decided once is cheaper than a decision made every evening.
  • A language model may edit, question and count. It may not draft.
  • The reason is not purity. Writing is how I find out what I think (🧠 I do not know what I think until I have written it), and a draft I did not write is a conclusion I did not reach.
  • Every prompt in this folder is one of the three allowed verbs. If a new one needs a fourth verb, it does not get written.
The page itself
  1. Never the first draft. Never the 300 words.
  2. No names in anything pasted: not the company, not a customer, not a colleague.
  3. Anything it counts, I check on a sample.
  4. Anything it states as fact, I look up.
  5. If it praises a sentence, look at that sentence again.

⚖️ Pros & Cons

Pros

  • It ends the nightly negotiation. The 300 words are mine or they are not done.
  • Count turned out to be the most useful verb: tickets, quotations, how often I say alignment.
  • Readers can ask whether a machine wrote an issue and get a one-word answer.

Cons

  • The line between a heavy edit and a draft is not as clean as the page pretends. My test: could I have written this sentence on a tired Thursday. If not, it goes.
  • It makes me slower than people who do not have the rule. I have decided that this is acceptable and I re-decide it about monthly.
  • Nothing here covers work documents, where the company has its own policy and I follow that one.

🔄 Alternatives

  • No rules and good judgment, case by case, at 22:00. I know how that goes.
  • No model at all. Simpler, and I would lose the counting.