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“ And I realized my setup instructions weren’t documentation. They were a wall between my product and the people who wanted to use it.”

Assuming this was written by a human, I think it is time to retire saying “this is not x it is y”.

The moment I see that I think the text is AI generated and I lose interest.

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i've noticed recently i actually do that fairly often. so i'm consciously trying to edit after the fact to remove it for that exact reason.

is annoying.

It feels ai-written, for sure. The sentence structure and idioms are very typical of ai writing these days.

Agreed; I don't think "Not X, but Y" is a reliable tell on its own, but taken as a whole TFA set off my AI writing spidey-sense big time. The intro takes three paragraphs of fluff (ironically) to say "My product used to have long docs, but after using a product with much shorter docs it made me reconsider my approach."

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