If you have anything kind or generous to say to an early career scholar, please say it. We need it in more ways than you know. We absolutely need the encouragement. This work is not easy, especially when you really care. This is often thankless work. Some days you are worn down. But it’s all love.

No todo hecho cultural (y el toreo lo es) merece ser conservado para la eternidad. Si acaso a efectos documentales. Las luchas de gladiadores por ejemplo no se han conservado y no pasa nada. Los historiadores y arqueólogos estudian el hecho y el recinto en que se celebraba. Y ya.

And yet I can see why a journalist could use them to organise their thoughts and notes, find a new angle, break writers’ block, in ways that are broadly fine.

But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me?

And that’s why I haven’t.