Your Content Writer and Your Lead Engineer Are Both Having a Crap Day
2023 was the year. The AI hype had begun. Writers were going to be out of a job in a matter of months, the world would probably end in a year, and I started using ChatGPT for coding tutorials. That involved running AI-generated code in my terminal to fix the crap the LLM had created until it worked.
When I got an engineer to sanity check the "final" draft, he asked without hesitation: Did AI do this? Two things gave it away, and both lodged themselves into my brain, which has since been telling me I should write about this.
The first tell: functional but bloated code. Would work just as well with a lot less. That sounded awfully similar to an editor's advice to a writer: don't take 50 words to say what you could have said in 5.
The second was more surprising: style. He told me that...
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