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I find the polarization of this debate a bit bizarre. While the article may have a point, I don't think anyone believes in pushing it to the absurdity of its logical extreme which would be to write terabytes of output using a pseudo random algorithm (plus a little learning from audience feedback).

So we see there should be a minimal acceptable quality for whatever you're doing, and if this is exceeded then by all means push out the volume.

The question then becomes, how to tell whether you're meeting the quality threshold?

I do agree that trying to be original is a red herring though. In a sea of mediocrity, being good is an original outcome in its own right.