Maybe I should have added this part. As a non-native English speaker, using AI to write RFCs, ADRs, and internal documentation, my own writing style shifted so much to the direction that my writing seems like AI.

Weird, I put your blog post through Pangram Labs. It said 96% of the article was written wholesale by an AI.

So, if you "write like AI" like you claim in a later comment, you are so good at it to accidently hit Pangram's extremely low false positive rate.

It is trivial to check this stuff. Just be honest.

I am also a non-native English speaker but that doesn't mean you start speaking Claudian English just because you interact with AI.

If people do not like that particular style of writing and you understand it clearly, why would you double down on it? Especially if your goal is to share your writing with the intention of them reading it?

Furthermore, why not just blog in your native langauge if that is comfortable for you?

That is fair. However, the fact that we have this discussion because I wrote the post in English, I wouldn’t reach out to my fellow engineers to discuss the matter this broadly.

I don't think the existence of this discussion has anything to do with the topic we are discussing. "I wrote this myself but I only know how to write like an AI because that's how I talk in English all the time" is a weird stance to take. Furthermore, your comments are a completely different style of writing so how are you able to write like that here but suddenly switch to Claudian English for the blog?

Regardless, my feedback to you would be to disclose AI writing if you do use it (in the blog itself, not as a reply when called out for it) or if you genuinely write like that, aspire to be better than AI generated content if you care about what you are reaching out with in the first place imo.

Jeez, give it a rest. He's made a good point about accessibility.

I guess you don't like it, so skip it then? Don't constantly relitigate.

Genuinely hilarious copout. "It's not AI, I just sound like one!!!"

In that case, sorry for getting it wrong and throwing shade.

I noticed the same on myself.

In a few years it would be interesting to see a research about how LLMs influenced the choice of words in the general population.

I’m one of the people who regularly complains about AI slop posted here.

But fwiw, your post didn’t trigger my LLM detector, and you’re writing thoughtfully about things that many of us are thinking about. Kudos.

The rest of the blog post doesn't strike me as AI generated. Hard to tell, and personally I think "hard to tell" is about as good as it's going to get from here on out, so I give the author the benefit of my doubt.

Agree that using AI for writing is a habit we collectively need to drop immediately.

I always check out the content whenever I see accusations of AI writing because I feel people can be a bit too suspicious these days but yes, this is as close to "AI but i changed how the em dashes look" writing:

> Did Kubernetes kill Ansible? Kind of. I haven’t written an Ansible playbook in years - if you handed me one right now I’d be squinting at the module syntax like I’d never seen it before - not because configuration management stopped mattering, but because Kubernetes...

Your idea that the AI is writing articles saying AI is good is very funny though

It's frustrating to find AI so prevalent in writing. It takes some nugget of a human written idea, dilutes it and increases word count, only to make the actual core idea less obvious (or ultimately summarized by someone using AI).

Poor hyperscalers have got to make money somehow...