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9:56am on Wednesday, 27th August, 2025:
Anecdote
As a lecturer, I wrote many references for students; I have over 170 of them saved in a directory on my hard drive.
As a former lecturer, I still receive occasional requests for references. I got one yesterday. It didn't take a lot of work to fill in (it was largely a form-filling exercise) so I did it there and then and attached the resulting .docx to the return email reply as directed.
It was just as I was about to hit send when I noticed that I had not, in fact, attached the reference .docx to the return email. I had attached the other .docx on my desktop to it instead. This file contained a number of poems by my daughter describing in vivid terms the behaviour of my 2-month-old grandson.
Maybe I should have sent it anyway. I'm sure that most of these references aren't read — and when they are, it's by an AI.
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