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by isoprophlex 262 days ago
This article isn't just full of LLM-isms, it's unreadable because of it. When you completely delegate your editing to a machine, you're not just lazy, you're robbing yourself of the one thing that made you stand out --emdash-- your own voice.

Moreover, as we navigate this evolving paradigm, we must carefully consider the balance between efficiency, authenticity and a third thing in this list.

Maybe at the end of the day, the point of writing isn't delving into a topic and churning out text as fast as you can, but expressing your opinions in your own authentic voice.

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I found the idea of a third thing in that list particularly persuasive.
You should. It was important in the classical study of rhetoric, given the name "tricolon".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isocolon#Tricolon

Which (as mentioned there) has evolved into a form where all three things are the same: money, money, money, location, location, location, education, education, education, and of course developers, developers, developers.
> and of course developers, developers, developers

Not quite; the Ballmer quote has him repeat the word in what sounds to me like one block of six followed by two blocks of four.

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