I saw "load-bearing" there and instantly assumed Thomas was making a deliberate point that it's OK to use terms that LLMs have poisoned provided you use them effectively and in a way that adds to the piece.

I'm personally furious that "load-bearing" has become an LLM tell, it's a really useful metaphor!

The placement of the "Those rethinks are load-bearing parts of your voice" sentence in the article makes me think the author intended the word choice

> Pasteurising is good, corn syrup is bad

Pasteurising something is making it sterile. Safer, but bland and not as interesting. I guess that’s the intended metaphor.