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I'm becoming AI-blind

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Why This Matters

This article highlights how AI-generated content is impacting the quality and authenticity of work-related documents, leading to challenges in focus and comprehension for professionals. Recognizing AI influence is crucial for maintaining critical thinking and ensuring clear communication in the tech industry. As AI tools become more integrated into workflows, understanding their influence helps consumers and developers better navigate and scrutinize AI-produced content.

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Recently I've been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I'm trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It feels like I'm reading it, but I'm unable to focus on its content.

I end up getting dragged into an endless back and forth with the sender, asking questions about things that have been covered in what they've already sent me. It's rather concerning, because I've spent the last year trying to re-learn how to focus and these situations show the exact opposite.

I sat down to analyze these situations and realized they all have a common denominator: the documents all show a strong trace to AI.

For example:

A design document that looks like a copy-paste from Claude. While it does cover the design of the specific feature in question, it also carries a lot of Claude-specific analysis and lingo. "This cuts just through it", "The first gate is real".

or

A 20-page marketing concept deck that mixes up (a rather reasonable) marketing strategy with some nonsense product technical architecture gibberish. How does it pitch the idea? "It's not selling X, it's selling Y". "The Redis backbone redefines the product".

or

A technical requirements document that describes a rather simple concept in a very verbose way. The thing is, a lot of this document reads like someone's "internal" reasoning that's not fully sure about certain decisions. Sounds like an LLM to me.

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