How I rekindled my love of writing with a tireless robot
A colleague sent me an architecture document last spring. Seventy pages of what should have been clear technical thinking. Instead, it read like a corporate-speak generator had vomited onto a page. Every paragraph danced around its point using elaborate metaphors that went nowhere. The tone shifted wildly between sections, as if multiple people with no shared understanding had written it. “Did you use AI for this?” I asked. “Yeah, mostly,” they admitted. “Just gave it some notes and let it run.” ...