'You write what you read': people joke their prose now sounds like Claude
livgorton · x · 2026-10-19
A relatable tweet quoting a high school English teacher's maxim — "you write what you read" — with the punchline that many people (the author included) are now reading a lot of Claude, and it shows in their writing. It taps into a widely discussed phenomenon: LLMs' signature prose tics are bleeding back into human expression.
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