AI-generated writing has become unreadable and inhumane, lacking context, perspective, and human voice. While AI can help people write better, using it to generate design documents, pull requests, summaries, and personal messages creates exhausting, impersonal content that undermines genuine communication and relationship-building.

Explores how to write effectively when large language models are ubiquitous, identifying common patterns of poor LLM-generated writing, defending intentional writing habits often mistaken for AI-generated text, and sharing concrete strategies for using LLMs productively in the writing process.

The author argues against using AI for substantive writing tasks, contending that writing is essential to thinking, AI-generated text contains subtle errors, and unlabeled AI writing is misleading to readers.

Explores how AI-assisted coding ("vibe coding") is following the same normalization trajectory as internet dating, eventually becoming the default practice as AI tools become ubiquitous in software development.