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by palmotea 40 days ago
> That's where the review process comes in.

> I've found the review process for these things to be far more vicious and demanding than in the real world.

1. for your software or for these "Atlantic-worthy articles"?

2. Why would the review process hold up to the standards of a first-rate publication? I'd expect the review process to succumb to the same pressures I'd outlined.

"Someone paid me to do it" will only get you so much motivation. And asking someone to write something whose only destiny is to get fed into the maw of a machine and mangled, seems like a way to eliminate all other sources of motivation.

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Journalism is not my field, so I can't deeply judge how effective the reviews are.

In software, the reviews for generating things that only exist as training data are far more rigorous than anything I've seen for things going into production at top companies.

I agree with you that it would make sense it would be phoned in. My experience says the opposite.