Programmer and writer Thomas Ptacek describes a rule he uses to keep AI tools from creeping into his own writing voice: never use a specific word or phrase an LLM suggests to him, even when the tool is genuinely helping with an edit (sockpuppet.org). In practice, he has a model flag problems in a draft he has already written himself, then rewrites those spots in his own words rather than adopting the model's proposed language. Blogger Simon Willison, describing the same discipline on his own blog, says he won't let an LLM write content for him but does use one for fact-checking, spelling, grammar, and as an occasional thesaurus, and adds that AI-suggested phrasing has a recognizable, generic texture worth staying disciplined against (simonwillison.net). The distinction both draw is about which step in the writing process a model is allowed to touch: composition stays human, verification and polish can be delegated.