korrents

korrents · piece

Your intellectual fly is open

Bryan Cantrill · 5 Dec 2025

Read the piece on bcantrill.dtrace.org ↗

1 korrent from this piece ↓

Bryan Cantrill did not write this page.

Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    LLMs are lousy writers that can cause readers to question a person's authenticity.

    Their wordsBut LLMs are also lousy writers and (most importantly!) they are not you. At best, they will wrap your otherwise real content in constructs that cause people to skim or otherwise stop reading; at worst, they will cause people who see it for what it is to question your authenticity entirely.

Keep reading

The other pieces are the ones whose claims are worded most like this one's. That measures language, not agreement: they may argue the opposite.