fullstackchris

Mostly agree, but one very small caveat—the books we all get to enjoy as readers have been through (presumably) beta readers, agent edits, and then publisher edits, and even then a line editor as well. All those hidden decisions you will not be able to learn until you do them.

a lot of these comments have no understanding of basic statistics. for example, did you know, at just 30 words of grammatically acceptable text, at least in english, youre already at more possible combinations of phrasings than atoms in the universe. you cant just throw a problem like that at LLMs and expect them to "just work"

folks should also look at burrows delta - i forgot which books but some folks were able to identify a ghost writer by stylometry alone.

ive said this on many threads, you cant just have text output from an llm (regardless of style / "pseudonym") and have it be "unique" because the nature of the transformer model itself is literally present in the output words. it will be detected as llm output every time. it has to be!

for pure anonymity, i suppose then it is an answer... for the actual craft and art style of writing it is not

so... long term here meaning until the next frontier model comes out?

"History doesn't echo - it is a distant early warning sign." - Leslie Harris

My profession is not, and never was, _programmer_. Lines of code—the actual text, is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. I'll take heat for that here for sure. But do you think a carpenter considers himself "one who screws nails" or "glues joints"? No, the small minutiae of the job was never the job itself.

I think its guys just who don't really understand how the internet works. I'm flabbergasted that its 2026 and I still see the "oh no my IP" trope.

If you're worried about it use a VPN.

Your ISP anyway knows your IP or at the very least your current one if its dynamic.

Thats another problem of this post, the author mentions Claude but not explicitely what models...

100k tokens "by lunch" is also not my finding, the newer models will hit that already right in the initial exploratory phase

lets be genuine here: those local models are no where near the capabilities of true modern llms like codex 5.5 and fable 5

but i also dont doubt in a few years time models with those benchmarks will be able to be run locally

still many many breakthroughs to be had

The prose in the post is what I've been shouting from a rooftop since the LLM hype started.

Just tokens produced by weights.

Useful, but never forget that ground truth!

How can it know which tokens not to read without reading them? and llms.txt is a single file for the whole site... not the same

except AI writing is near 100% detectable. check out something like pangram. no matter what you generate, the cadence of their word choices, sentance structures, etc. are always the same and often blantently visible in the prose. in fact i doubt an LLM of any size now and into the future can properly write without a "fingerprint". real writing, in almost any language, given the possible combination of writing even just a few sentences, even given valid grammar, already exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. because LLMs are transformers, they will always leave behind clues.

Its wild to me that the concept of working 80% (1 day off a week) or even 60% (2 days off a week) isn't even a concept in the US, while in europe such part time situations make up a huge share of the work force.

In short, people have been having the day off for decades now. It's called part-time work.