Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
"I" being capitalized is one of the most weird quirks of the English language.
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#22Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
You can use your ad blocker to lowercase the entire internet like this
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#23I feel this the most on mobile platforms where the phone really should be acting as your agent but instead we're stuck with all these apps.
It is worse on phones, but most desktop computing feels like this too, at least when you're not at a command line. I've been trying to puzzle out what I'd like computing to look like instead, but I don't get far beyond a concept of "objects" and "actions" as fundamental building blocks. How to actually expose this... yeah, it's tough.
COM, buddy! Publish your interface with a known UUID, anyone can claim support for your interface in the system registry, there's a standard way to initialize libraries and pull objects supporting the interface out of it, so now you can pull other peoples' applications into yours, without knowing anything about their software. This is used _all over the place_ on Windows, for things like arbitrary cross-application embedding and context menu support... at least before we realized we miiiight want to have some notion of "computer security".
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/com-tech...
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#24Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
i like it. maybe because i grew up with phones and texting but having perfect punctuation reads very formal to me, and if im reading a personal blog post i assume its casual reading. if i get a text that ends in a period mark, i assume the person typing it is MAD. i also just like lowercase glyphs more they look more pleasing to me
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#25and always, always, always, you are at the mercy of the program author.
Not if it is open source, and you're willing to put some effort into it. When I write code I like to think of it more as using a computer effectively instead of programming.
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#26Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
your brain is only fighting it because it's expecting capitalization, the same way parens put new lisp users off and javascript has difficulty shedding its semicolons; it's all just struggling to let go of something that was drilled into you.
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#27Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
"I" being capitalized is one of the most weird quirks of the English language.
arguably it makes what would otherwise be a very little letter stand out more in text
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#28Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
i hate this writing style so much. i have to do extra work fighting autocorrect to make it seem like i just rolled out of bed and typed it out on my phone. i am so smart, see, i don't care about Big Establishment Grammar, my ideas are so good it will pierce through
My output is so high that editing anything more completely than iOS automatically handles for me is a waste of my time
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#29Am I the only one who finds the Sam Altman-esque 'all lowercase except for proper nouns like Linux but not including the pronoun i' writing style unbearable to read?
it's pretentiousness thinly disguised as modesty.
trust me.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I definitely find it difficult, cognitively, for long-form writing. It's also the second time recently I've seen all-lowercase blog-post-length content, after previously having never seen it, so I wonder if something is happening culturally to pull text-message style formatting up into the rank of published content.
My guess is it’s meant to come off as more authentic and conversational, like an informal chat.
It's often used as a tone signifier: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-cap...