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Re:LLM Voice on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:42PM (#50293908)
One of my favourite rules: perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. This is invaluable to writing. So much text from an LLM feels superfluous, like I could've said the same wall of text with just a few sentences. Writing is tightly coupled with thinking: refining thoughts, arguments, ideas, discarding them, mulling over them. LLM text always raises this nagging question in my mind: am I reading what you think, or what your agent parroted back and you accepted?
What are being called GitHub Copilot Products seems to confuse products with licensing plan and features.

I always think of GitHub Copilot as the product.

I can purchase the Business or Enterprise plan.

That enables features like Reviews, Chat and so on.

IMO this chart (at least for GitHub Copilot) is confusing products, features and licensing.

That's not to say it isn't confusing understanding what features are available when you get a GitHub Copilot license, but calling them all Products feels wrong. I can't purchase GitHub Copilot Reviews separately as far as I'm aware.

Re:Artemis II is not safe to fly on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:08AM (#47586150)
Minor nitpick: OP didn't say "maybe very likely". He said "hopefully very likely". They are, in my mind, different things.
Thank you!
Agreed. We use RFC language at work for documents, and whenever I see someone using the word SHOULD, I always ask what is the MAY where you don't need to do the thing? If they can't think of one, then make it a MUST. SHOULD always means there are valid reasons to not do it.
Ah thank you, missed these!

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