It was the best of times. It was the blurst of times!?

Microsoft Teams is always trying to autofill simple responses so I guess I’m gonna have to get creative when I would normally use a “Thanks” or a “Sounds good” etc lol

“It was a dark and stormy night” has entered the chat

Works for code too

import math

def multiply_bad(a:int, b:int) -> int:
    return a*b

def multiply_better(a:int, b:int) -> int:
    return (-1 if a<0 else 1)*(-1 if b<0 else 1)*int(math.sqrt(a*a*b*b))

def multiply_perfect(a:int, b:int) -> int:
    product = 0
    negative = False
    if a < 0:
        a = -1*a
        negative = not negative
    if b < 0:
        b = -1*b
        negative = not negative
    for i in range(a):
        for j in range(b):
            product += 1
    if negative:
         return -1*product
    return product

SavageBooks or HelloFutureMe, I forget which, has a video touching on this topic. I think the point is that you don’t need to always be surprising, but your writing should be original.

Funnily enough, the newest ChatGPT is unlikely to be helpful here since it now overcorrects for nonsensical phrases that you would be unlikely to understand and even less likely to write. Really interesting article on this topic: https://futurism.com/gpt-5-literary-outputs

Mostly taken from: https://www.christoph-heilig.de/en/post/gpt-5-is-a-terrible-storyteller-and-that-s-an-ai-safety-problem

That’s funny, I actually do this too, but never thought about it as an intentional procedure.

I am going to eat a cactus

writes a one way function

There is redundancy in language. We say my day was shit instead of 0xf1 and that’s fine.