LLM Writing and Me
LLM Writing and MeCasualLLM Writing and MeInformation is hard to look atMakonea·Aug 3, 2026Updated Aug 3, 2026·10 min This blog hasn't used LLMs to write drafts or finished pieces, at least not yet (though it's not entirely LLM-free; I do use LLMs for proofreading things like spelling and for parts of the code). That said, browsing around lately, LLM-written content has become far more common.The prose styles have grown noticeably similar, and on top of that, a lot of the sentence constructions feel un-Korean in their phrasing. Most tellingly, the writing itself lines up in what you'd call high information density, text packed so tight there's no room to breathe.
- ▪LLM Writing and MeCasualLLM Writing and MeInformation is hard to look atMakonea·Aug 3, 2026Updated Aug 3, 2026·10 min This blog hasn't used LLMs to write drafts or finished pieces, at least not yet (though it's not entirely LLM-free; I do u
- ▪That said, browsing around lately, LLM-written content has become far more common.The prose styles have grown noticeably similar, and on top of that, a lot of the sentence constructions feel un-Korean in their phrasing.
- ▪Most tellingly, the writing itself lines up in what you'd call high information density, text packed so tight there's no room to breathe.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 3,445 of its stories.
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Record
| Original publisher | MAKONEA |
| Canonical URL | https://www.makonea.com/en-US/casual/llm-writing-and-me |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:39:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T15:45:42.943Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T15:45:42.943Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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LLM Writing and MeCasualLLM Writing and MeInformation is hard to look atMakonea·Aug 3, 2026Updated Aug 3, 2026·10 min This blog hasn't used LLMs to write drafts or finished pieces, at least not yet (though it's not entirely LLM-free; I do use LLMs for proofreading things like spelling and for parts of the code). That said, browsing around lately, LLM-written content has become far more common.The prose styles have grown noticeably similar, and on top of that, a lot of the sentence constructions feel un-Korean in their phrasing. Most tellingly, the writing itself lines up in what you'd call high information density, text packed so tight there's no room to breathe. These days, no matter what site you visit, you're likely to run into writing that looks like it came from an LLM.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at MAKONEA.
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