Not Everything Should Be Automated. Part 1
- Sep 8
- 2 min read
..I learned this basic lesson the hard way after wasting 4 hours of my life 🥺
Let me share it so you don’t make the same mistake.
As someone who posts regularly on LinkedIn, I wanted to speed up my content creation flow. But I don't want “AI-generated content” - the ones that you can tell immediately it’s written by AI.
But, I do use ChatGPT (I call him Jarvis) to help tighten my grammar, refine my structure, and occasionally rewrite things I’ve already written, because he knows my style.
My Manual Flow Looked Like This:
Draft post in Notion, done manually
Copy/paste into ChatGPT to:
A) Fix grammar
B) Provide pros and cons (for reflection)
C) Create a slightly polished version in my tone
Save that as “Jarvis version” in Notion
Reflect, rewrite, and finalize
Manually post
It is time-consuming but I liked the process. Jarvis was my co-writer who elevates me, without replacing me.
But this back and forth “chat” with Jarvis seemed time consuming, so decided to automate the middle parts - steps 2 and 3.
It should have been easy - but no matter how much I refined the prompts, the outputs felt generic - "AI-written". Not “Aska” that Jarvis usually gets it.
It turns out, ChatGPT via API doesn’t remember who I am. It doesn’t know Jarvis, or Aska, or the way we work together in the full ChatGPT experience.
ChatGPT with memory ≠ ChatGPT API.
Sure, I could still use it to get a quick grammar check or structural critique. But automating using ChatGPT AI for the case that requires customization, was a mistake I made.
Lessons learned:
AI model differences matter, customization matter.
Time saving should not justify the loss of authentic voice, even slightly (at least for me!)
Having a personal standard of how much edits should be done by AI helps
If you are not as picky as me about “being authentic” and looking to automate LinkedIn / blog post creation - DM me for the automation template I created 😃
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