Greg Palermo
@palermog.bsky.social
Assistant Teaching Prof, Emory University Writing Program & Affiliated Faculty, Data Science (fka QTM). Citation, data, & disciplinary rhetoric. Co-editor, JITP Reviews. 📷🎾☕️🎹. Opinions mine. he/they
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This is what LLMs reduce academics to: rehashing basic research skills even in the final year students. It's honestly heartbreaking. It's not just random Bsky people, we see it at work all the time.
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
![I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS [Ama-
zon Web Services] error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s
help.
After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this isn’t
hyperbole—this is the new reality for software developers.
Namanyay Goel (2025, n.p.)
To show how serious the situation has become, one need only think about our last round of mark-
ing essays by AI undergraduate students. What jumps out of the page, for us, is something that con-
tradicts the rhetoric our colleagues promote, namely, it is evident that students need moreessay work
assigned to them, not less (Kosmyna et al. 2025). Almost every essay was poor on some dimension
that does not befit students in their final years of undergraduate study: the writing is often super-
ficial, the language does not reflect students’ stage and knowledge, citations are frequently misused,
and (most shockingly because it is so easy), the reference style is not applied correctly. This means that
the constellation of skills required to write a good academic essay has not been nurtured enough or
has atrophied. What this means is also that regardless of factual LLM use by the students, their ability
to write essays is on the floor, and not, as many seem to claim, at ceiling where one cannot differentiate
a good essay from a plagiarised or otherwise dishonest attempt of an essay. Importantly, the training
of writing skills should be done in the context of critical reckoning with the norms and pressures sur-
rounding the work expected of students (i.e. high study load, so-called student excellence, financial
pressure to graduate, etc.).
In this context, it is also important to be wary of arguments that wrongly position LLMs as, mak-
ing education more democratic, accessible, and equitable by removing language barriers, removing
unequal access to mentorship, and increase diversity, equity and inclusion in…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreie6lfs3vpc2khuwi4svntmokuyboprhexi6tnkk2jarmpbez6agn4@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 7:53 AM
This is what LLMs reduce academics to: rehashing basic research skills even in the final year students. It's honestly heartbreaking. It's not just random Bsky people, we see it at work all the time.
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
See section 3.7 here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
You know that you can stop posting through this and admit a mistake right?
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You know that you can stop posting through this and admit a mistake right?
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This is why you're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is why you're not supposed to negotiate with terrorists
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Some Dems fuming about this deal.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Some Dems fuming about this deal.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
Sen. Tammy Duckworth:
“I simply cannot, and I will not, vote to do nothing to help protect [ppl who rely on ACA] from Trump’s vindictive and malicious efforts in exchange for a vague promise from the least trustworthy Republican party in our nation’s history."
I did not say it was a gotcha question.
September 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I did not say it was a gotcha question.
I have a somewhat different take, which is that it’s adept of her and part of avoiding bad faith uptakes. Very necessary when pretty much every move you make ever is scrutinized in a double bind.
September 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I have a somewhat different take, which is that it’s adept of her and part of avoiding bad faith uptakes. Very necessary when pretty much every move you make ever is scrutinized in a double bind.
What’s wild to me is that they are the alchemists in their own metaphor, and it seems like projection.
September 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What’s wild to me is that they are the alchemists in their own metaphor, and it seems like projection.
This is genuinely horrifying. Who says that with a straight face as though it’s a good thing!?
September 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is genuinely horrifying. Who says that with a straight face as though it’s a good thing!?
No, it isn’t. That fallacy requires that there’s an argument about whether the person is a member of the group or not. And to protect a generalization. This person is saying you can’t generalize millennial sentiment based on an individual, which is the actual logical error here.
September 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
No, it isn’t. That fallacy requires that there’s an argument about whether the person is a member of the group or not. And to protect a generalization. This person is saying you can’t generalize millennial sentiment based on an individual, which is the actual logical error here.