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Writing is thinking, so an LLM inflating a one-sentence observation into three paragraphs destroys the thing that made it worth reading.

Drawn from what Gergely Orosz said

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    Gergely Orosz 1 Sept 2026

    Writing is thinking, and we are interested in your own thoughts and observations, not a sharp, one-sentence observation turned into three paragraphs of blob text by an LLM.

    How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com

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