Erica Curtis

Still editing a sentence from 2017. Language, humor, wonder, and a tragic semicolon habit. Writing professor, mom, future author of 20 books. Drafts pending.

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

Glad I discovered Anthropic for document design & project management.

Asked ChatGPT to perform a similar design task & showed the bad output to Claude. Claude shook its virtual head, called Chat "basic" and "underwhelming," then redesigned the whole PDF without prompting. #sassy

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

A couple spots left for college essay coaching!

I’m a professor of writing & rhetoric, Fulbright scholar, & editor for global thought leaders, including Yale World Fellows and Smithsonian honorees.

You want me helping your high schooler craft their personal statement!

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

The things that Steinbeck did to stay sane as a writer. Priceless.

The bottom line is, the less pressure we put on ourselves, the better the output in the end. Perfectionism is what drives writing paralysis.

[Nathan Baugh @nathanbaugh27]

Steinbeck's 6 ideas for better writing or, as he says, "some of the things I have had to do to keep from going nuts"

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

We had absolutely not been discussing that.

Honestly one of the weirdest demonstrations I’ve seen of what happens when a predictive language system loses contextual stability mid-conversation.
#AI #LLM #xAI #MachineLearning #PromptEngineering #ArtificialIntelligence

🧵 (4)

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

Last night I intentionally kept pushing Gemini deeper into recursive abstraction to see where conversational cohesion would start to weaken.

I think I broke Gemini’s brain for a moment.

Here’s what happened 🧵 (1)

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

Suddenly the model repeated “THOM THOM” (x1000), abruptly pivoting into paragraphs of automation & infrastructure documentation: telemetry systems, deployment architecture, etc.

It informed me this was the “SCADA/OEE platform” we had apparently been discussing.

🧵 (3)

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

The problem isn’t that AI can write essays.

It’s that it can do it better than students, without thinking at all.

That should concern us.
https://t.co/tp3XRSf25y

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

Bedtime story →
Child requests sequel →
More worldbuilding →
Now we have a hand-illustrated 4-book series about a rat named Quintillius.
My co-author is five and has a very critical eye when it comes to syntax. #writinglife

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

If you're having a bad day, watch this

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

If your unfinished manuscript has been gathering digital dust since 2019… This is your permission slip to write badly, weirdly, joyfully again.

✨Write Like Nobody’s Watching — my new piece for stuck writers: https://t.co/T19EP3jOWa

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

For my fellow children of the 80s/90s: What’s a childhood toy that Gen Z would 100% look at and be like: “WHAT EVEN IS THIS??”

I pick this bendy green guy & his orange emotional support horse. #nostalgia #waitwhat #gumby

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

I’ll leave this here for the both of us. 🙌

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

@Holly_H_H I love this, thank you so much! I’m so glad that you have found it resonant and meaningful 💝☀️😍

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

@Holly_H_H Thank you, Holly! ❤️

[Erica Curtis @graceinrevision]

@shepherdmoon53 Life is good! How about you?