So now, in many ways, humanities majors can produce some of the most interesting “code.” Writers are often the best at prompting AI for written material because they are skilled at describing the effects they want prose to create (“end on an ominous note,” “make the tone increasingly frantic”). They are good editors, so they can provide instructions back to the AI (“make the second paragraph more vivid”). They can quickly run experiments with audiences and styles by knowing many examples of both (“make this like something in The New Yorker,” “do this in the style of John McPhee”). And they can
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