These days I use Perplexity mostly for research, SERP intent, Reddit/forum rabbit holes, and finding angles. Then I run everything through the OpenAI API for outlining, writing, rewriting, cleanup, all that stuff.
Biggest change for me was stopping the giant “write me a full article” prompts. Section by section works way better and gives you way more control.
One thing that helps a lot is doing a critique pass after the draft. I’ll ask OpenAI to find anything that sounds generic, repetitive, or too AI-ish and rewrite only those parts. Makes a pretty big difference.
Also feeding it real Reddit comments or reviews before writing makes the output feel way more natural. It picks up real language patterns instead of that overly polished AI tone.