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Peter Magenheimer @peterjmags.com · 28/03/2026

Buzz Lightyear saying “SYNERGY” to Woody Pride (yes that’s his last name, I looked it up)

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Peter Magenheimer @peterjmags.com · 28/03/2026

Trying out Tidal and this song just came on (probably gotta tap to see the uncropped version)

Screenshot of the Tidal app playing Tidal by Imogen Heap

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Peter Magenheimer @peterjmags.com · 24/02/2026

Seeing people use LLMs to generate entire documents feels kinda bad, but I've struggled to express *why* exactly it feels bad. I think this articulates it really nicely — it's about trust.

Excerpt from https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576, with a passage highlighted: "our writing is an important vessel for building trust — and that trust can be quickly eroded if we are not speaking with our own voice."

Full text:

If, however, prose is LLM-generated, this social contract becomes ripped up: a reader cannot assume that the writer understands their ideas because they might not so much have read the product of the LLM that they tasked to write it. If one is lucky, these are LLM hallucinations: obviously wrong and quickly discarded. If one is unlucky, however, it will be a kind of LLM-induced cognitive dissonance: a puzzle in which pieces don’t fit because there is in fact no puzzle at all. This can leave a reader frustrated: why should they spend more time reading prose than the writer spent writing it?

This can be navigated, of course, but it is truly perilous: our writing is an important vessel for building trust — and that trust can be quickly eroded if we are not speaking with our own voice. For us at Oxide, there is a more mechanical reason to be jaundiced about using LLMs to write: because our hiring process very much selects for writers, we know that everyone at Oxide can write — and we have the luxury of demanding of ourselves the kind of writing that we know that we are all capable of.

So our guideline is to generally not use LLMs to write, but this shouldn’t be thought of as an absolute — and it doesn’t mean that an LLM can’t be used as part of the writing process. Just please: consider your responsibility to yourself, to your own ideas — and to the reader.

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Peter Magenheimer @peterjmags.com · 18/02/2026

I don't mean to pile on here, but it looks like the updated version of the diagram was heavily cribbed (if not outright ripped off) from Atlassian's docs without attribution