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hot take: I would rather read your imperfect English in your own voice than perfect LLM English that makes all writing narratively the same

Emily Hunt

@emily.space

10 Aug

Your English isn't perfect? You sometimes break rules? So what! It's your voice, and it's infinitely more interesting to read than the samey narrative structures that LLMs produce. Just write; it was always enough before, and it is still enough now.

Scott McGrath

@smcgrath.phd

I hope we can recalibrate our expectations of human writing. Elegant prose is a skill, and it takes years of effort to cultivate. Just like not everyone can do a triple lutz, we shouldn’t expect its writing equivalent. I’ll take clarity and precision over text that is moving in scientific papers.

10/8/26, 11:26 am0 reposts4 likes

Scott McGrath

@smcgrath.phd

10 Aug

Setting the bar of academic writing that should be beautiful and impactful was probably too much. If you de-stigmatize some writing expectations, you will like decrease the incentive to reach for LLMs.