AI researcher: years of grading essays show thinking isn't central to writing
dioscuri · x · 2026-09-30
dioscuri, an AI lab researcher, quips that grading enough undergraduate essays convinced him thinking isn't central to writing — a wry take on the debate over whether LLM writing counts as thinking, noting humans produce plenty of unthoughtful prose too.
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