(ai; didn't read)

For me, writing is the most direct window into how someone thinks, perceives, and groks the world. Once you outsource that to an LLM, I'm not sure what we're even doing here. Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?

Before you get your pitchforks out..

..and call me an AI luddite, I use LLMs pretty extensively for work. Claude Code has been tearing into my token budget for months now. I can't imaging writing code by myself again, specially documentation, tests and most scaffolding.

When it comes to content..

..I need to know there was intention behind it. That someone wanted to get their thoughts out and did so, deliberately, rather than chucking a bullet list at an AI to expand. That someone needed to articulate the chaos in their head, and wrestle it into shape. That someone spent the time and effort — rudimentary proofs of work from a pre-AI era.

I'm having a hard time articulating this but AI-generated code feels like progress and efficiency, while AI-generated articles and posts feel low-effort and make the dead internet theory harder to dismiss.

Broken is now better?

Growing up, typos and grammatical errors were a negative signal. Funnily enough, that’s completely flipped for me. The less polished and coherent something is, the more value I assign to it.

But eh, broken English and a lack of capitalization is now just a simple skill away so does it even matter?