2026-02-20 22:19 UTC
@xgranade My dude is torching his own credibility to use an LLM to check for typos.
TYPOS.
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@hosford42@techhub.social 2026-02-20 23:41
@cthos Regular spell checkers and grammar checkers are, in fact, up to the task, after many decades of careful refinement. @xgranade
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@theorangetheme@en.osm.town 2026-02-21 00:38
@cthos @xgranade And the fallout is going to be way more expensive than, I don't know, paying an editor? The man writes for a living, surely he has a (very good!) editor?
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@komali_2@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 11:57
@cthos I think that's less an indictment of Doctorow and more one of the never-LLM crowd, who have clearly become dogmatic Puritans