Martin Fowler urges authors not to draft in LLM voice
He says edited model drafts still read uncanny, and that handing off prose also hands off the thinking writing forces.
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Altworld/Hemmingway-1 — new model trending #29 on Hugging Face
Altworld releases Hemmingway-1, a 27B open-weight Apache-2.0 model built on Qwen3.8-27B targeting everyday writing tasks.
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Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive
Essay argues writers should avoid AI for substantive prose because writing is thinking, AI output is subtly vague, and unlabeled AI text misleads readers.
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How To Write With An LLM
Simon Willison endorses Thomas Ptacek's rules for using LLMs as copyeditors rather than ghostwriters, banning suggested phrasing.
How to Write with an LLM
Thomas Ptacek publishes a method for LLM-assisted writing: never adopt suggested words and forbid model encouragement to preserve author voice.
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I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
AI researcher Nathan Lambert argues LLMs remain weak at long-form technical writing, questioning whether models can autonomously organize scientific knowledge for breakthroughs.