> I’ve struggled for years to imagine this, ever since scaling started for real in 2020, and I failed to get productivity out of chatbot-tuned LLMs, with their

> I’ve struggled for years to imagine this, ever since scaling started for real in 2020, and I failed to get productivity out of chatbot-tuned LLMs, with their creatively-stunted endlessly repetitive prose. Instead, while lagging behind on creativity and insight into me, I’ve watched them become ever better at coding and cybersecurity hacking. And the open-weight models are even more so—benchmaxxed, and useless to me. It sounds like the context is that Gwern is a writer who wants writing assistance, and in 2026, all the AI labs are working on coding. Writing style is much less important when working on code. Perhaps if at least one AI lab focused on writing style, we would see how much better they can be at writing? I'm not sure it requires a "digital twin."