Category: Writing

  • Autologic Fun with LLMs

    Autologic Fun with LLMs

    I asked four frontier LLMs – two from OpenAI and two from Anthropic – to write a paragraph such that the paragraph is densely packed with autologic words and phrases and the paragraph itself is autologic. The generated paragraphs were judged by a human and by an LLM judge. The two Anthropic models took first…

  • The Machine That Stole My Hobby

    The Machine That Stole My Hobby

    For a couple of decades, I spent happy hours making electronic music. Not professionally — I never played a gig, never really expected anyone outside my immediate circle to listen. That wasn’t the point. The point was sitting in front of a screen with a cup of coffee, nudging a bassline until it felt right,…

  • LLM Speech Writing Contest

    LLM Speech Writing Contest

    Abstract Just for fun, I tested several LLMs for their rhetorical skills by asking them to write a speech, then using two LLMs to judge the results. As expected, the closed commercial models scored highest, but the open-weight gpt-oss 20B model scored surprisingly well. The final results are shown in Figure 1. The LLMs shown…