Hypothesis: the better LLMs get at coding, the worse their writing gets
kwangmoo_yi · x · 2026-09-03
kwangmooyi proposes a hypothesis: as LLMs improve at coding, their writing degrades. He has noticed more AI slop writing lately, which he attributes to coding agents using more jargon — words only they understand, like code variables.
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