Yeah I think we're pretty much in agreement. I guess my perspective is that we should consider LLMs closer to a command line interface, where terseness and macros and shortcuts are broadly seen as a good thing, than a work email, where you pay close attention to your phrasing and politeness and formality.

> No caps and no punctuation can work in text chat if you're being judicious (keyword), or if you know everyone in the group prefers it. Not to belabor my point, but a recent fad is to write "articles" (if you can call them those) in all lower-case and barely any punctuation, making them a bloody eye-sore.

Yeah it's very cultural. The renaissance in lowercase, punctuation-less, often profanity-laden blogs is at least partly a symbolic response to the overly formal and bland AI writing style. But those articles can definitely still be written in an intelligent, comprehensible way.