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Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

SteadyVane has taken 35 readings of Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post… since Sep 6, 2026: 177 points at the first reading, 728 at the latest (+551). Its biggest one-day gain was +273 on Sep 6, 2026.

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728

peak points

728

latest points

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first seen Sep 6, 2026 · last seen Sep 11, 2026 · published Sep 6, 2026

Day by day

Day (UTC)	points	Change
Sep 11, 2026	728	0
Sep 10, 2026	728	0
Sep 9, 2026	728	+3
Sep 8, 2026	725	+21
Sep 7, 2026	704	+254
Sep 6, 2026	450	+273

Each day's last reading. Change: against the day before (after days with no reading: since the last day that has one); the first day shows the change within that day.

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