{"id":792,"date":"2026-09-18T05:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/how-to-write-with-an-llm-a-final-ward\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T05:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T05:35:16","slug":"how-to-write-with-an-llm-a-final-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/how-to-write-with-an-llm-a-final-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Write With An LLM \u2014 A Final Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So: don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>One last thing. Don\u2019t take all of the model\u2019s copyediting advice. This is a corrolary of Rule Two. I fed this piece to GPT5 a minute ago (\u201cI didn\u2019t write this\u201d), and it said the whole thing was 20% too long. It\u2019s probably right. But I\u2019m not fixing it. I\u2019m just gonna be me.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/sockpuppet.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/17\/how-to-write-with-an-llm\/\">sockpuppet.org\/blog\/2026\/09\/17\/how-to-write-with-an-llm\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So: don\u2019t 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\u2019t take all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}