[rgbrgb]

today I posted a show HN that got insta-flagged by an AI detector. I had written the post then gone back and forth with claude, getting to a refined version I thought was much better. claude said it would hit way better with hn (me?).

after getting flagged I found the original, reposted, and it is actually so much better. not polished, not a masterpiece, I'm nowhere close to a professional writer. But it's like a human story with the marks of human care.

i fear my brain's getting smoothed down by reading all the generation and I need to drop the AI crutch for a while, at least for copy/writing.

[adamweld]

Your brain _is_ getting smoothed by this behavior. Don't use AI for writing or your thinking will suffer.

Of course Claude told you its version would land better, that's what how it is trained, but that doesn't make it true.

[imp0cat]

Did you use a fountain pen to write and refine the post? ;)