The author’s two rules for writing with LLMs are good (“You may never use a single word an LLM suggests to you” and “Avoid encouragement”) are both good, but the role-playing and the convoluted process described at the end seem like more work than just writing on your own and asking an LLM for basic proofreading and style checking.
https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/
Richard Carroll
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2026-10-08 19:05:01 UTC
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