blogging and llms

I don't really like some of my past blog posts, even though they're helpful and I sometimes revisit them to refresh on something. Early on, the final draft of almost every post I wrote would go through an LLM before publishing. After writting, i'd prompt an LLM like this:

hey, I am writting a technical blog about x_topic on my personal blogging website and english is not my first language.
I need you to go through this draft I have written , find grammatical issues or other issues worth refining or improving and give me back a
cleaned up blog post I can publish. PLEASE DON'T CHANGE THE TONE AND SCOPE OF THIS DRAFT.
Here is the blog post:
[paste blog contents]

then I would scan the spitted out draft, sometimes I would find it trying so hard to cover every single detail that I didn't want to have. then skim through it and remove some things or start reconsidering leaving them that way. sometimes would even take more time to review the draft than time taken to write the first draft. I should have improved the prompt? I did try that a couple of times, but I never really got past that example. It mostly turns into going back and forth with an LLM and the time spent going back and forth with the LLM just doesn't match the value of the output I get, or the output I actually care about.

That’s like the downside of it, but there’s also a bit of a greener grass on the other side. Sometimes it just points out that something feels off, which makes me go and look it up to confirm. I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to be nudged by a machine when something isn’t quite right in your writting. What I don’t like is the overconfidence and hallucinations that sometimes come with this. When you talk about something fairly new, it can confidently push corrections even when it’s wrong.

Ultimately, I'm not going to hand over my original writing to an LLM for polishing the same way anymore. And I know the debate about using AI or not even for this kind of thing is a long old one. At this point I can't imagine not using some of these tools. Now, Instead of feeding my entire blog post into it, I'd rather just ask about a specific sentence or paragraph when I feel stuck finding the right way to express something.