Ruff creator: LLMs made my prompting so lazy it's leaking into my Slack messages
charliermarsh · x · 2026-10-25
Charlie Marsh, creator of Ruff, notes a bizarre side effect of robust LLMs: tolerance for typos and omitted words has made him lazy in prompting — and now he catches himself typing Slack messages the same sloppy way. A small but telling observation on how AI assistants reshape everyday writing habits.
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