Strippers


LLMs are awesome language prediction models that tend, as with anything that's scaled-up, to the average.

They're great at helping you see patterns —when you have learned what patterns look like.

They're also great at making your thinking and voice sound average. To strip you out of your originality. At creating strippers of thinking.

The more you leave your thinking to LLMs, the more you're stripped-out of your voice.

Don't be one. Your customers care, hire you, and love you for YOUR thinking.

Rod Aparicio

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