<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Language models face an especially visible failure... > Language models face an especially visible failure mode when asked to produce self-contained prose. Models readily produce grammatical continuations and rhetorically polished fragments because local fluency is easier than intellectual closure. They also tend to wrap a whole sentence in double braces without determining whether the sentence contains a durable object or whether the paragraph requires a different surface. This article is therefore part of the teaching record for agents working in my corpus: the operational rules live in the authoritative writing guides, while this public project explains the literary and systems philosophy those rules are protecting. **Source:** [[projects/The Argument in Miniature - How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose|The Argument in Miniature: How I Write Quotations, Paragraphs, and Reusable Prose]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Language models face an especially visible failure mode when asked to produce self-contained prose. Models readily produce grammatical continuations and rhetorically polished fragments because local fluency is easier than intellectual closure. They also tend to wrap a whole sentence in double braces without determining whether the sentence contains a durable object or whether the paragraph requires a different surface. This article is therefore part of the teaching record for agents working in my corpus: the operational rules live in the authoritative writing guides, while this public project explains the literary and systems philosophy those rules are protecting.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-language-models-face-those-rules-protecting ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->