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Updated 6 Nov
Readers skip text that looks machine written, on suspicion alone. Who wrote it is part of your reputation
Career & Craft
- Writers say text a reader spots as machine written gets skipped, and unfamiliar work is dismissed on suspicion.
- Useful apps get buried for looking like low effort copies, and time the author saves passes to every reader.
- The sources are social posts, a research write up, essays and a watermarking argument, spread over weeks.
- One counterexample runs the other way: an audience that worked out a character was generated became more engaged, not less.
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First seen 2 Sep 2025
If you are a PM
BeforeNow
Anyone can write the release notesChoose who writes release notes and help pages
The store listing is a marketing jobTreat the store listing as part of the product
AI documents save the team timeCount reading time, not writing time
BeforeNow
Readers trust your case studies
Who said it
Kevin Powellbsky.app · 5 November 2026
The em dash thing has been known forever, but I didn't realize Oxford commas were also a red flag for AI-written content. …Ben Hylak, Raindrop CTO, ex Apple designx.com · 21 October 2026
regardless of inherent good/bad, something "looking AI" or "sounding AI" means that it is bad (at least for now?) …