Please flag up front how and how much you used LLMs for the writing. When the prose and structure is this LLMy, I’m forced to assume the ideas are LLMy too, so I don’t read it.
The intro notes it was written with help from Claude, but I should have been more specific. The core ideas came from my own reading and thinking through this for my own career planning.
Claude helped me tighten prose, find and cross-reference sources, stress-test arguments, and smooth transitions. The writing is polished with AI, but I read over every single word and edited it until I was satisfied.
On the broader point: if AI helps deliver clearer writing and the human is checking it and driving the ideas, that’s better for the reader. The distinction that matters is unchecked slop vs carefully checked writing.
Please flag up front how and how much you used LLMs for the writing. When the prose and structure is this LLMy, I’m forced to assume the ideas are LLMy too, so I don’t read it.
Thanks for raising this.
The intro notes it was written with help from Claude, but I should have been more specific. The core ideas came from my own reading and thinking through this for my own career planning.
Claude helped me tighten prose, find and cross-reference sources, stress-test arguments, and smooth transitions. The writing is polished with AI, but I read over every single word and edited it until I was satisfied.
On the broader point: if AI helps deliver clearer writing and the human is checking it and driving the ideas, that’s better for the reader. The distinction that matters is unchecked slop vs carefully checked writing.