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by renyicircle 18 days ago
>writing flawless English

Is there still grammar police on the Internet, calling out people for making grammatical mistakes in their writing? Who is asking for flawless English? Thinking that the LLM style is an example of flawless writing is a common mistake of ESL people. It's not flawless. A single rhythm, structure and flow permeates every piece of LLM writing. There is no variation whatsoever. People have been reading so much of that stuff recently that they don't bother to read the article if they spot one of these patterns. They're so easy to avoid, too.

> Fired. And the part that gutted me: His proudest accomplishment at AWS? Restoring my account.

change to

> I was gutted to read that his proudest accomplishment at AWS was restoring my account.

Is it flawless? Probably not, I'm not a writer, or a native English speaker. However I think it's more sincere, explains the feelings without any fluff, and is just simpler.

If the author's goal is to have people read their article, they should consider that people are tired of reading these patterns over and over again, it's not "flawless English" and it's not "writing clearly" because the patterns are unnecessary and obscure the message.

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> Is there still grammar police on the Internet, calling out people for making grammatical mistakes in their writing?

This is one of the last places on the internet that actually has grammar police, as commenters here have a desire to be technically correct in all aspects.