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The writing is really strange. I'm not sure if this is AI or not. So many words, and so little has been conveyed...

Example from the comments...

> Great question. I haven’t found a perfect tool. A combination of Figma and Storybook and Zeroheight do a good job pulling it all together. But the real magic is the designer-developer relationship that stay in lock step. Those relationships are what it takes to be in tight sync.

_But the real magic is the designer-developer relationship that stay in lock step. Those relationships are what it takes to be in tight sync._

Who writes like this?

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One of my least favourite genres of post. The Medium equivalent of standing on a milk crate at a coworking space to declare, “I’ve transcended Figma, and so can you, if you’re as spiritually advanced as me.”

The core idea (designers solving problems instead of pushing pixels) is sound. But these kinds of posts are always packaged with this kind of missionary zeal, as if discovering the usefulness of sketching or systems thinking is some kind of personal enlightenment.

I think people are falling all over themselves to tell their now and future bosses that they’re using AI so don’t fire me thanks or be some low rent influencer.

  Who writes like this?

Whichever generation it is that uses the phrase 'you got this!' I can't remember if that's Millenials, Gen Y or Zoomers. Every new generation comes up with novel methods to sound annoying.

Every generation uses this. I had a 60-year old coworker who said this to me when she was training me years ago.

Yes and no. Mainly no:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=you+got+this&y...

No doubt there are older people who use the phrase today, but that's still more annoying; they are the older people who are very proud of inserting 'cray cray' and 'yeet' into conversations.

> they are the older people who are very proud of inserting 'cray cray' and 'yeet' into conversations

Those people are just delulu.

Since most authors are probably 40+ your link seems to corroborate the above comment.

I can't say who exactly is responsible for 'you got this'. It just began to grate at me the year when every new movie or tv show had a character saying it.

A similar phrase is 'I need you to', which appeared around the same time. Eg: 'Okay, I need you to calm down' or 'I really need you to be supportive right now', etc. To my ears it sounds gratingly self-entitled.

You can pry “yeet” from my cold, dead hands. It’s a great onomatopoeic word to express the feeling of throwing something with great force.

“Mark had enough of his job, so he stood and yeeted his laptop out of the window.”

'Flung' sounds better to me, but my original comment admittedly was performative. I don't really believe my word choices are objectively better than anyone else's.

Cray cray is the worst, longer and sounds dumb.

At least yeet can be funny if you're referencing a meme/being intentionally ironic. I'm not sure there's another great word to replace it anyhow, chuck or hurl are probably the closest but don't imply the level of reckless abandon, and aren't quite as "multi-purpose" in terms of understood contexts.

Why was there a pronounced dip right before it exploded? It’s like watching the tide roll way out before a tsunami hits.

It might be just a quirk with the corpus Google uses.

If it's not a quirk, then it is probably due to one usage of the words (eg: "So you got this angry customer, see?") peaking in the 1940s, and a different usage (eg: "You can do it... you got this!") rising in the 2000s.

LinkedIn lunatics.

Hahaha, that was my exact feeling, as well!

>Who writes like this?

They dont have time to write a short one. So they wrote a long one instead.

bots or corporate drones I would normally think.

I mean there is a good reason to think it might be AI, but just as much reason to think the person who wrote isn't that good a writer but needs to write some stuff because engagement or whatever and then this is what comes out.

That said I wrote something I was pretty proud of where the narrator was depressed and burnt out, in a very small bit of a much longer and complicated narrative, and somebody assumed it was written by AI because the writing seemed emotionally detached - so I personally dislike casting accusations of AI at writing just because it doesn't match my taste.

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