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While I'm certainly no stranger to letting an LLM help me streamline some technical documentation, I also think it will eventually grind down everything to a sea of "lowest common denominator" speech.

A friend of mine recently used an LLM to help write a condolence card, and I found that appalling.

Who I am as a person is the sum of my experiences, and I'm not even talking about the great cornerstones but random stuff. Like that one time I accidentally still had our cordless house phone in my pocket as a kid when I went to play in the woods and lost it there. There are thousands of these little things, and it's what makes you unique and influences how you talk and think. I am saddened by the thought of "not using AI will be like not using a word processor soon". It will grind away all the little weirdness, all the little unique aspects. I would have loved to read "apotheosis". I didn't even know that word!

>>avhcep+(OP)
I love those unique things. The cordless phone is a great example!

I understand that fear of the sea of lowest common denominator. My hope is that it will help us create even better writing, music, etc. and appreciate it even more.

>>gwintr+NL
I guess we'll learn in a few years time how that will turn out. Let's hope I'm overly pessimistic.

Keep up the great writing, and don't be afraid to use the words that come to your mind, whether they're "flowery" or not. :)

P.S. I still sometimes think about that phone from the 90s when I'm taking a walk in those woods. It's gotta be in there somewhere! Haha.