How To Write With An LLM — A Final Ward

So: don’t let an LLM pick your words. Be careful not to let it trick you into thinking your first draft is better than it is. Then outsource all the most tedious work to the model. Your voice stays intact, but your work is faster, better, and less painful.

One last thing. Don’t take all of the model’s copyediting advice. This is a corrolary of Rule Two. I fed this piece to GPT5 a minute ago (“I didn’t write this”), and it said the whole thing was 20% too long. It’s probably right. But I’m not fixing it. I’m just gonna be me.
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