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by echelon_musk 302 days ago
Writing with LLMs is not a shame

Or

Writing with an LLM is not a shame

3 comments

I’d suggest “not shameful” instead of “not a shame”.
That's a shame
Should have written with an LLM.
What says they didn't?
You’re absolutely right!
Not just right - genius!
> Writing with an LLM is not a shame

Should be "Writing with a LLM is not a shame", no reason to put a "an" here.

"el" begins with a vowel sound, so "an" is the appropriate article.

Is not about the letter, it's about practical pronunciation. "An r before a u, and an m or an f".

It depends on how you read it. You could say "a large language model".. I think both are right
Then the "an" tells us that the author pronounces "LLM" as "Ell-ell-em".
Nope, that's not how a / an works in English.