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Stephenjohn Holgate
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Writer type person. Professional immigrant. PEN/Dau Prize winner. MA from the IIML, Wellington. Contramestre of Capoeira Angola. #author 🇯🇲 ➡️ 🇳🇿 https://open.substack.com/pub/jackmandorastory
Is it because it is soulless and joyless?
January 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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“A Microsoft spokesperson said ‘it seems you’re writing a letter…’ “
January 2, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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So I will have patrons turning up and demanding “that YA book about vampires on TV” and I will spend a really long time searching for something that does not exist.

That is because LLMs are predictive text engines. That’s it. They cannot replace human search experts,
January 2, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM