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A couple small clarifications

A couple small clarifications

Posted Oct 22, 2025 3:30 UTC (Wed) by WolfWings (subscriber, #56790)
In reply to: A couple small clarifications by newren
Parent article: Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more

There was lot of early LLM-related usages that were still 'fancy grammar checker' stuff and generating colorful blobs just to use as textures like starry skies or a field of boulders that (at the time) were innocent, but there's no way to differentiate between those and todays abusive public uses of the tech now.

A bunch of artists I know re-drew those portions and/or just removed those pieces from their online gallery years later as it turned out how bad LLMs were for creatives as a whole.

In this case though what's the difference/improvement between what you did and just running the same documentation through hunspell for example?


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A couple small clarifications

Posted Oct 22, 2025 15:56 UTC (Wed) by newren (subscriber, #5160) [Link]

> In this case though what's the difference/improvement between what you did and just running the same documentation through hunspell for example?

Logically, I was using the LLM kind of like a glorified spell checker, so that is very good comparison. It's certainly very similar, and I've run the git documentation through command line spell checkers before. However, I found that spell checkers tend to turn up far more false-positives than an LLM does, making it much more labor intensive (and meaning that I got through a smaller subset of the Documentation and didn't repeat the exercise again later). Further, spell checkers (at least whatever one I used -- aspell? It's been long enough that I don't recall which one I ended up using) only tend to catch typos and spelling errors, while missing grammatical errors and awkward wordings/phrasings. LLMs catch and fix a wider variety of problems while having fewer false positives. (Though there were still quite a few, mostly because it was attempting to standardize American vs. British English spellings, and the manpages were so inconsistent on that point that I didn't want to subject the list to the noise of standardizing all of those.)


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