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I'm seeing so many more typos on the internet than I did a few years ago. I'm convinced some of it is deliberate to ensure readers the writer isn't AI.

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like others I think it's AI related, but not that angle.

the fact of the matter is that now when I program I don't need to hawkishly stare at my screen to ensure I didn't miss a paren, semi-colon, whatever.

I now just sort of type (when I don't dictate) every second word of a sentence in a kind of simplified Newspeak to an intern who is infinitely forgiving of typos.

in that case i'm sure practice makes perfect, and I practice less than I ever have.

From my own experience, a significant minority of my daily writing is sent to an LLM, which is very forgiving of typos. I would not be surprised if people are getting sloppier.

Yes we are.

I have a theory that every typo you make distracts the LLM from whatever you are trying to get it to do, so I avoid typos as much as possible. I have no evidence that this is true though.

I’d be willing to believe that. For most of my use cases though, prompt quality doesn’t matter all that much. It’s mostly searching for/in docs

I think you meant "assure readers", my evidently human fellow!

in my case it very much is. im now deliberately leaving slightly off from correct writing, or exaggerated slightly. as a sort of organic behavioral kintsugi

The funny thing is that you can easily get a LLM to introduce typos and grammar mistakes if you ask it.

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