I had an experience like this writing a letter of recommendation. I wrote it, then fed it to an LLM to improve it. The result was markedly a step down, bland, a

I had an experience like this writing a letter of recommendation. I wrote it, then fed it to an LLM to improve it. The result was markedly a step down, bland, average, and unimpressive. It's like it vacuumed the soul out of it. I hope that if I ever ask for a letter of recommendation again that people will honestly tell me if they can't outperform an LLM when writing it.