There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
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It gives a rule teams can actually adopt: you own every line in your doc, including the ones a model phrased. That single constraint settles most arguments about AI-assisted docs, RFCs and PR descriptions.
“There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text — every rewrite and rephrase changes the meaning of your writing, and if this is done by an entity that doesn’t have the most detailed mental representation of what you personally were trying to communicate, information will be lost.”
Sophie Alpert
“You must stand behind every idea and every sentence in your docs . It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire document is representative of your own thoughts before you share it.”
Sophie Alpert
“If a reviewer asks, “What did you mean by this line?”, it’s not acceptable to reply with “Oh sorry, AI wrote that, just ignore it.””
Sophie Alpert
“It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good.”
Simon Willison
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