Re:The revolt of the reader
by bcantrill on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:05PM
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This is (obviously?) false, but considering how well-capitalized we are at the moment, you do have me wondering what a quid pro quo would be for; perhaps in this fictional universe Pangram has lucked into some of the PCIe clock buffers that we've been scrambling to secure enough of?
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By "quid pro quo" I wasn't suggesting that Pangram's PR people's podcast placement was pay-for-play, just that they traded access for your positioning of their tech and their exec in your content marketing efforts.
That's pretty normal, but the point is that a blog post which is 35% Pangram promotion may not actually be less annoying than the use of AI to help write blog posts.
Re:The revolt of the reader
by mplanchard on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:30PM
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It is less annoying, at least to me. I can read a semi-promotional post. I just bounce right off LLM writing
Yeah, fair -- and definitely not: I am earnestly just a fan of what they built (and I also think it's really important as a way of getting a check against rampant LLM use).
Your love shines through! I'll work on turning down my "assume the worst" knob, thank you.