> I don’t want to live in a world where you use AI to summarize something important into unreadable text, and then I use AI in an attempt to decipher it. I want to hear you, imperfections and all.

It doesn't fundamentally change the equation if I use AI to prepare and then write it myself. If I'm using AI effectively, it's likely that you won't be able to tell.

This sort of post is increasingly coming off as high and mighty, where the user thinks they are being exceptionally creative and other people who are using AI are using it mindlessly.

As an educator in university I have found the project proposals of students have become longer, to some degree more well written and quite certainly have LLMs involved.

This becomes problematic when it turns out people haven't even read what they sent me.

To clarify: this is about voluntary projects that do not win them extra points.

“Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.”

I’d be curious whether the author composed this sentence himself or it was the output of AI. Personally I often find myself “it’s not X it’s Y” and then recoiling in disgust and rephrasing it simply because AI has made it so grating from overuse.

"In this essay, I want to express my frustration, and describe how I’m finding value in AI for writing.'

"I don't like the way other people use AI, but the way I use it is okay."

I'm going to stop reading right there. I don't want to read that either.

If it isn't worth the time for someone to write something themselves, it isn't worth my time to read it.

Also, writing, indeed any making activity, forces you to think clearly. Often that is the deepest purpose of prose, even code - forcing the author to confront the problem and sharpen their own understanding of the world we share. That it then communicates something to another person (or to a machine), is a happy bonus.

> Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing

I stopped reading here. I’ve become so sensitive to LLMism, I don’t want to go on. Tip; omit the needless ”it’s not X, it’s Y” and just write ”it’s Y”.

The article itself is written by AI lmao, notice the —