Writers say LLM editing strips the connective prose that makes technical writing readable
chrisalbon · x · 2026-10-13
Author @vsbuffalo complains that editing with LLMs sucks: models keep removing the connective phrases he spent years learning to help human readers follow ideas. Chris Albon adds that writing has no 'lean' equivalent — models optimize for compression, sacrificing exactly the redundancy good writing needs.
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