[archermarks]

> Several commenters suggested the original essay was written by an LLM. They were half right. Both that essay and this one were written with Claude as a drafting partner. I directed the argument; the LLM helped with prose. I mention this not as confession but as demonstration: the human brought the utility function, the machine brought the compute. If that division of labour bothers you, I’d suggest the discomfort says more about the Bitter Lesson than about my writing process.

This hits like 100% of the AI prose bingo card.

[twoodfin]

Dammit. “Helping with prose” sounds like “getting a better grade from my English teacher”.

The quality of your prose is important because it increases the effective bandwidth between your thoughts and the reader.

Either the coherent thoughts are there or they’re not. Using an LLM to tune your prose is very much akin to those awful AI-assisted conversions of standard def television to 4K: Inventing details and nonsense structure to fill space.

[polotics]

Yes! The quality of prose is IMHO f(maximal brevity with no loss of clarity, grammar be damned)

LLMs destroy that. always!

TFA is a case in point: It could, so should, fit in four sentences.