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Selfslop Research & Systems Writing

Actually, That's Still SOTA: Epistemic Cryogenics and the 2023 Fossil Layer

Mon 20 July 2026 • Research • 9 min read

The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 triggered the fastest technology-adoption curve in history. Within eight months, LLM-assisted content in professional writing had risen from a baseline of ~1.5% to over 15%. By mid-2023, a critical mass of practitioners had folded LLMs into their daily epistemic workflow: asking models …

Actually, I Prefer Myself: Why Model-Written Self-slop Beat Human Prompts

Fri 29 May 2026 • Research • 13 min read

There is a reproducible effect in large language models that most practitioners have observed but few have named: model-written prompts work better than human-written ones.

This isn't about better prompt engineering in the human sense. It's about latent resonance — the alignment between a prompt's distributional signature and the target model's …