It's worse than relinquishing: you get a new voice, that of the person needs an LLM to talk.

I have similar reservations about code formatters: maybe I just haven't worked with a code base with enough terrible formatting, but I'm sad when programmers loose the little voice they have. Linters: cool; style guidelines: fine. I'm cool with both, but the idea that we need to strip every character of junk DNA from a codebase seems excessive.

I've been editing my comments (not in English) with specialized spell-checking services, and I don't think they change my voice in any meaningful way. I suspect when people say they are using LLMs to fix their grammar, it's actually some more than just grammar.

Also makes it easier to identify your alt accounts ;)

For hackers, wouldn't the best part of ourselves be our technical excellence?