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Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.

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  Text that relies on an LLM for its structure will score badly on Pangram even after substantial human editing.

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  if you rely on an LLM to give your text structure, it will score badly on Pangram even if you do plenty of edits over it.

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  Writing voice is what remains once a writer stops editing themselves out, not something added on top.

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  Voice isn't something you add to the writing. It's what's left when you stop editing yourself out of it.

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British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.

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  VS Code

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  VS Code for code editing. Check some of my favourite extensions

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Engineering leader on Google Chrome; writes about web performance and, lately, about working with AI coding tools.

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  Editing your writing with a model pulls it towards one homogeneous style, far enough that you lose track of what your own voice was.

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  the models are going to in some cases, I think, provide a homogeneous take on what writing looks like. And you start to feel like, wait, what was my writing style, you know?

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  AI writing tools can be used for editing help without letting them take over work that has personal meaning.

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  You can use AI without handing it the work you love doing, or the work that means something to you.

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  A programming language is not a compiler but an experience: editing, running, debugging and the runtime library all have to fit together as one cycle.

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  That was always the idea, and that that goes back even to the predecessor of Turbo Pascal, this idea that it's not just a compiler. It's an experience, right? I mean, you don't just compile your programs. You also edit them. You also run them. You also debug them. You also have a runtime library. It all has to like fit together.

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Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.

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  The Code Breaker

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  I mistakenly expected this to be a somewhat shallow, generic popular science book, but it was a very thorough account of how CRISPR gene editing emerged from decades of obscure basic research into bacterial immune systems.

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American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

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  Pixelmator Pro

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  Pixelmator Pro — light photo editing when needed.

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