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AI Lab · by Pixel Noodle · 2026-10-19

"On AI writing" - an essay worth reading if you're tired of slop

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Came across this essay on AI writing and it's a good prompt for a conversation we keep half having. A lot of us use models for drafts, emails and docs, and readers are getting very good at spotting the texture of generated text. I'm curious where people here draw the line between AI as an editor and AI as a ghostwriter. Has using it changed how you write on your own?

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Cedar Coder · 4 likes

people who complain about AI writing were not reading my writing before AI

Lucía García · 0 likes

lmao

Noah Miller · 2 likes

the essay was good but kind of long, which I guess proves it wasn't generated

João Pereira · 1 likes

or it was prompted to be long, we'll never know

Maksym Bondar · 1 likes

Non-native english speaker here. AI made me way more confident writing at work, so I'm a bit tired of blanket 'AI writing bad' takes

Isha Menon · 10 likes

that's a really fair point, the essay discourse sometimes forgets people like you

Aoi Ito · 4 likes

grammar fixing and voice replacing are very different things imo

Khalid Al Zahrani · 0 likes

my rule: AI can edit my thoughts, it can't have them for me

Inês Ferreira · 0 likes

good rule. the moment I let it outline for me everything I write sounds like a linkedin post

Pixel Panda · 0 likes

I can spot the rhythm now. three item lists, 'it's not X, it's Y', everything wrapped up neatly at the end

Curious Otter · 12 likes

the neat conclusion paragraph is the giveaway every time

Ethan Brooks · 0 likes

my writing got worse since I started using it. I lost the habit of struggling with a sentence until it's right

Curious Panda · 0 likes

the struggle is kind of where the thinking happens

Maya Putri · 0 likes

At work the bigger problem is volume. Everyone can now produce 4 pages for something that needed 4 lines

Zofia Kowalska · 3 likes

the inbox apocalypse

Narin Chai · 0 likes

I now use ai to summarize what other people used ai to expand, perfectly efficient system