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by twoodfin 97 days ago
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.

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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.