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This is the kind of criticism that could only come from someone without much formal writing experience.

This is a very normal workflow: You write a full-length text detailing the project you worked on. You then trim it down to a summary which you share with a group of people X. You then trim it down into a different summary which you share with a group of people Y.

When you do this multiple times you unsurprisingly end up with some sentences that make it into multiple summaries because they're that important to the thesis!

(Also, the summaries on Twitter and Reddit aren't anything close to "most of the writeup"—the full text is 6000+ words!)




So you agree this is a formally written PR piece copy-pasted and as such it's spam. Got it.

What would've been not spam? Spontaneous writing with a link to the puff piece.




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