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We have no idea what "drafting partner" means in that case. Maybe the person isn't a native English speaker or is for whatever other reason insecure about their prose? It would be sad if they couldn't make their argument because of that.

I honestly don't like the style of the essay either - maybe reading HN now trains one to view every "It's not X, it's Y" with suspicion. But as long as it's only the style and the author didn't get the entire argument from AI, I think it's worth skipping over it and focus on what they want to say.

(That's the difference I see to AI slop: with slop, there is no message to parse out because everything is generated. If the author here really only used AI to clean up their prose, I'm fine with it)