• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I’m in a field that decidedly does not value the written word beyond the minimum they need to understand and write emails, but I had to take a couple of writing classes in college.

    I had to write several 10+ page papers, including research papers (like actual research, not “do your own research” research) before LLMs existed and I’m so fucking thankful for it. Nearly every single day I have to read the shit my colleagues write, and it’s like they’ve never read a book in their entire lives. It’s honestly tragic.

    And this is a field full of ostensibly intelligent people.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Some would say the fact that your colleagues clearly didn’t need to take those classes means you shouldn’t have either.

      I would not say that, I love writing.