Usually companies that have a fantastic, growing business model don’t sell to PE.

I also don’t like it when a money-losing business stops giving me below-market pricing.

Why did the phone provider sell to a private equity firm?

Dammit. “Helping with prose” sounds like “getting a better grade from my English teacher”.

The quality of your prose is important because it increases the effective bandwidth between your thoughts and the reader.

Either the coherent thoughts are there or they’re not. Using an LLM to tune your prose is very much akin to those awful AI-assisted conversions of standard def television to 4K: Inventing details and nonsense structure to fill space.

I’d guess some of that is accounting for taxes on profit they’ll now have to pay that otherwise would have been deductible if spent on salaries for R&D?

Let’s not kid ourselves: Every day, multiple “I just asked the LLM to clean up my notes” posts are voted up to the front page here, often with highly engaged, appreciative comment sections.

LLM’s for all their faults are well-trained to produce what we want.