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AI writing

Prose a model wrote: what gives it away, what it does to reading, and whether anyone should publish it.

What people on korrents have said about AI writing, newest first — 14 positions from 11 people.

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Who Everyone DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson 2 GOGergely Orosz 2 PSPeter Steinberger 2 AOAddy Osmani 1 DSDan Shipper 1 EMEthan Mollick 1 GSGrant Sanderson 1 JLJason Lemkin 1 MKMartin Kleppmann 1 NENeetCode 1 PGPaul Graham 1
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  1. GO

    Gergely Orosz quoted

    Our readingAI-written prose is an inferior read because a model emits a statistical average -- code's audience is a machine, writing's audience is people.

    Their wordsThe reason for this hardline stance is that we believe in the value of human thought and experience, as told by people with first-hand knowledge. It’s also about the audience: The “audience” for AI-written code is usually a machine, whereas the writing in Pragmatic Engineer is for humans, by humans. AI produces a statistical average in its output which creates uniform, dull text that’s an inferior reading experience to human writing – at least today it is.

    ↗How software engineering is changing: an essay challengeblog.pragmaticengineer.com

    writing

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  2. 1 day earlier
  3. EM

    Ethan Mollick quoted

    Our readingAI-generated writing tends to repeat the same themes, names, and underlying ideas across different outputs.

    Their wordsAIs don’t just repeat the same sentence patterns but also the same themes (memory is a favorite), names (Elara Voss, Marcus Chen), and underlying ideas.

    ↗Agency and Agentsoneusefulthing.org

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  4. 4 days earlier
  5. GO

    Gergely Orosz quoted

    Our readingMass AI-written outreach fails on its own terms: playing the same numbers game as everyone else adds to the noise you then drown in.

    Their wordsDon't expect a response to an AI-written email, or a templated email. I get it, you think it's a numbers game: send a tweaked email out to 100 podcasts, and hope that at least one replies. In reality, by playing the same game as everyone else does, you are assisting to the noise, and end up drowning yourself in it as well.

    ↗Why you're not getting a response to your podcast pitch from me (or others)blog.pragmaticengineer.com

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  6. 8 days earlier
  7. AO

    Addy Osmani quoted

    Our readingNow that anyone can generate a body of text, the only thing that justifies asking for a reader's time is whether the idea itself is worth reading.

    Their wordsnow that it is very easy for anyone to use an agent to create a body of text, I think it's more important than ever for us to make sure that the ideas we're putting out in the world are actually worth people reading.

    ↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 20th of 22 in this recording

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  9. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingOne reliable tell of AI writing is excessively colorful verbs where a normal person would use a plain one.

    Their wordsI was thinking about how I recognize AI writing, and one big tell is excessively colorful verbs. A handful of journalists might write that a proposal "drew" 100 votes, but any normal person will just say "got".

    ↗@paulg on Xx.com

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  10. 7 weeks earlier
  11. GS

    Grant Sanderson quoted

    Our readingA stream of AI-written papers with any error rate at all becomes insufferable, because finding the error costs more than the paper is worth even at ninety-nine percent.

    Their wordsIt becomes insufferable like as a mathematician because you you would basically be like I'm every single time I see one of these I kind of don't know if it's worth my time even if 99 out of 100 of them are right.

    ↗Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?youtube.com 14th of 23 in this recording

    mathematics

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  12. 6 days earlier
  13. NE

    NeetCode quoted

    Our readingThe AI coding tools only recently became good enough to change the answer: after years of hating them, most of this codebase is now written by AI.

    Their wordsYeah, so I would say over the last 6 months actually we've been cranking a lot of features out a lot of code out. Most of it has been written by AI at this point. And before that really wasn't the case. I was actually a really big AI hater for a long time

    ↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com 13th of 21 in this recording

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  14. 4 weeks earlier
  15. DS

    Dan Shipper quoted

    Our readingWe will read far more AI-generated writing in documents and email, and we will like it.

    Their wordsI think that we will be reading way more AI generated writing in documents and emails and we will like it.

    ↗AI predictions: Job markets, Codex beats Claude, and the death of org charts | Dan Shipperyoutube.com 19th of 24 in this recording

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  16. 5 weeks earlier
  17. MK

    Martin Kleppmann quoted

    Our readingAI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck.

    Their wordsBut also LLMs increase the need for these formal proofs because, you know, we're live coding a bunch of stuff. If we have to manually review all of that code, then that will become the bottleneck.

    ↗Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmannyoutube.com 19th of 26 in this recording

    LLMsformal proofcode generation

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  18. 2 months earlier
  19. PS

    Peter Steinberger quoted

    Our readingHe would rather read your broken English than your AI-written text; we are reaching the point where typos are valuable again.

    Their wordsBut I much rather read your broken English than your AI slob. You know, of course there's a human behind it, and yet they, they prompt it. I'd much rather read your prompt than what came out. Um, I think we're reaching a point where I value typos again.

    ↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 21st of 30 in this recording

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  21. PS

    Peter Steinberger quoted

    Our readingEverything he blogs is handwritten now, AI used at most to fix typos, because the agent misses the nuances of his voice and the rough parts of a human have value.

    Their wordsSo, I, I completely moved away from that. I, I, everything, everything I blog is organic, handwritten and maybe, maybe I, I, I use AI as a fix my worse typos. But there's value in the rough parts of an actual human.

    ↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 22nd of 30 in this recording

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  22. 6 weeks earlier
  23. JL

    Jason Lemkin quoted

    Our readingRecipients do not care whether a sales email was written by an AI, so there is no point disclosing or disguising it.

    Their wordsAnd what we've learned is now we just send it. We We just send it and no one cares.

    ↗We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here's what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)youtube.com 12th of 24 in this recording

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  24. 6 months earlier
  25. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingThe prediction that 90% of code will be AI-written by the end of 2025 deserves skepticism, though manual programming may yet become a horse: ridden for love, not transport.

    Their wordsThe Anthropic CEO seems to think that 90% of all code by the end of the year is gonna be written by AI. I am more than a little bit skeptical about that, but I'm open-minded about the prospect that programming potentially will turn into a horse when done manually.

    ↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting | Lex Fridman Podcast #474youtube.com 11th of 36 in this recording

    Anthropic

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  26. 10 months earlier
  27. DH

    David Heinemeier Hansson quoted

    Our readingAn AI-written cover letter reads as slop to the person receiving fifty of them, so do not send one.

    Their wordsI can tell when AI wrote your thing because it uses the same phrases in the same setup as all the other ones

    ↗DHH Is Right About Everythingyoutube.com 10th of 8 in this recording

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