Voices
Thomas Ptacek's two rules for writing with an LLM: never adopt its words, and reject its encouragement
Ptacek argues the model is a copyeditor, never a ghostwriter, because 'readers can detect LLM words in the parts per trillion' and 'everything they write is a magazine headline.' Rule one disqualifies any LLM-generated phrase from your draft; rule two says the reflexive praise models give first drafts reinforces weak impulses and blocks the rethinking that produces voice. What he keeps the model for is the mechanical work it does without fatigue: catching repeated words, unnecessary modifiers, and paragraphs in the wrong order.
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