I Like Typos

Something I enjoy doing, for both time-pass and "broadening my horizons" so to speak, is reading a variety of blog posts. I source a number of them from lobste.rs and end up branching out by keeping a reading list of referred blog posts that also look interesting.

Anyway. While catching up on a number of entries in my reading list, particularly those that were published in 2025 or earlier, I found quite a few typos in them. Nothing flabbergasting, but definitely not something you'd expect in 2026 and the age of LLMs.

I'm not sure when, but at some point I started actually enjoying reading typos and grammatical errors in blog posts and other discourse. It's nice to know that someone on the other side of the screen spent the time to write about a topic that seems at least plausibly interesting, and cared enough about the details in it (examples, images, etc.) to make sure they're there. Output production is far cheaper in effort now that friction is less of a feature, so seeing the human touch here and there helps me feel like the work before me isn't some vibe-[verb]'d copy-paste. AI is indubitably an important tool, but if I wanted its thoughts on topic \(X\), I'd prompt it myself!

Perhaps this is also some underlying explanation on my own tendency to submit school assignments with typos in them? Though for completeness sake, I do encourage the reader (including myself!) to thoroughloy proofread any text they submit in a professional context.