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Should have reviewed their content with chatgpt before posting. Maybe next time.

I think you've managed to hit the nail on the head.

Rather than accept the rather human nature of people writing in their own style and making mistakes, we'd prefer to filter it through a dispassionate void first.

It's rather embarrassing how quickly we're willing to toss away the human elements of writing.

Agreed. LLM writing style is disgustingly bland and "offensively inoffensive" like Corporate Memphis. Would rather have actual human style, mistakes and all.

I usually excuse typos, but when the post is literally about:

> Software used to also be substantially better written

I think he ends up tanking his own argument before he even started. Heck, there's a typo in the headline (which I guess is good bait, since I now clicked on and responded in this discussion...)

To show that it's a real human that wrote the article? Interesting idea.

It's been well know that spelling and grammatical errors are a good steganography channel, however I don't think this is what going on in The Fudged Article here.

I think I've started to prefer text with spelling and grammatical errors now, to a certain degree at least.

The author is an ESL speaker.