What Addy Osmani thinks about writing

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Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google, most of it on Chrome and Chrome DevTools, rising from software engineer to director of engineering, and who created TodoMVC and helped push Core Web Vitals.

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1. 19 Aug 2026

   Our readingEditing your writing with a model pulls it towards one homogeneous style, far enough that you lose track of what your own voice was.

   Their wordsthe models are going to in some cases, I think, provide a homogeneous take on what writing looks like. And you start to feel like, wait, what was my writing style, you know?

   ↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 21st of 22 in this recording