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sunshowers.io

18 October 2026 02:29

I would be ashamed to put out a post on my personal blog which had a sentence and diagram like this. For a trillion dollar company to put something like this out is something else

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sunshowers.io

18 October 2026 02:29

Also, they keep inventing ever more sophisticated ways of doing contrasting parallelism. Rhetorical devices are meant to be used SPARINGLY. LLMs seem to have no sense of restraint. I think the evidence suggests the VRs in the RLVRs are simply unable to capture restraint

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sunshowers.io

18 October 2026 02:28

Can I just say how poorly constructed the sentence "Five decisions stay with people" is? Is the number of decisions really what you're centering? When you have "people" right there? I'd say"The people on the team are responsible for:" with a list, and get rid of the useless diagram

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sunshowers.io

18 October 2026 02:28

Claude in particular keeps doing this bizarro-world passive voice thing. It's not actually passive voice but it has the same effect. This is objectively terrible technical writing

Astreia

redoubters.bsky.social

18 October 2026 01:44

The "no NATO expansion eastward" inherently disregards the right of sovereign states to control their own alliances Just as the USA has no business getting mad at Mexico and Canada for seeking closer ties to China or the EU right now, Russia has nobody to blame but itself for being a shit neighbor