The author lays out two hard rules for using LLMs in writing without letting them hollow out your voice. Rule one: reject every single word an LLM suggests, no matter how good it sounds. Frontier models are unnaturally skilled at generating pleasing phrases—they operate like they're writing magazine headlines—and that's exactly the problem. Even if you like their word choices, they'll push your writing toward something polished and generic that readers will sense as artificial. Rule two: ignore the model's encouragement. When you hand your messy first draft to an LLM, it'll tell you everything is great. That's poison. Your early drafts are genuinely bad—full of unnecessary words, weak structure, and half-baked ideas—and the model will trick you into defending those instincts instead of rethinking them like you normally would. Those rethinks are what make your writing sound like you. Where LLMs actually help is with the mechanical grunt work. They're tireless at spotting overused passive voice, repeated phrases, filler words like "very" and "actually," and paragraphs that could be moved elsewhere for better flow. The author recommends reading "Style: Lessons In Clarity And Grace" to build a concrete list of editing problems to hunt for, then running the model through multiple passes targeting each one. For comparison work, feed both the original and your rewrite to a different model instance so it doesn't know you're fishing for validation of the new version. The workflow is straightforward: write your piece yourself, ask the model to flag problems, rewrite based on those flags, then have it compare versions blind. You can even build a simple tool to manage this—the author sketched out a Python setup with SQLite and Notion-style editing—though anything you build yourself will work better for you than borrowing someone else's system. The payoff is real: faster, less painful writing that stays recognizably yours because you're doing the actual composition while the model handles the tedious pattern-spotting that would exhaust you.