Continuing to see a steady trickle of LLM-assisted or LLM-created pitches for LWN, some of which don't even seem to have a meat proxy at the wheel; just somebody turning loose an AI agent with instructions to try to scam a publication for a few bucks. I don't like the adoption of LLM tools by FOSS maintainers and contributors, but I can understand the appeal (kind of) and that doesn't feel malicious or scammy to me. (I understand some people disagree there. That's fine. No need to reply.) But the "pretend an LLM's work is human authorship" people? I have nothing but contempt for that. You want to "write" with an LLM? Keep it to yourself. Why the hell would we pay you to fondle prompts when we could do it ourselves, and better? Our subscribers don't want to read that. We don't want to try to edit it. And you don't deserve a pat on the head, much less a check, for "I asked Claude, and it vomited out this sludge." #LLMs