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I really appreciate how this finds a common thread through all of my current engineering anxieties.

I agree, but I think the same logic could have been applied to the structure of the article. It could have all been 2 paragraphs.

Try enjoying reading for purposes other than spending as few brain tokens as possible to acquire maximum info. It takes time to understand another persons perspective. Sophie’s Choice wouldn’t be as good a movie if you watched the 30-second TL;DR.

I found it compelling throughout

Well I found the text to be obviously inflated with AI, becoming much more verbose than necessary, even if syntactically, grammatically and structurally it was correct.

To each their own, I found it tedious and annoying. I quit reading maybe 1/4 of the way in. By then already I had loud alarms going off that I need to read the comments because I'm sure many of the points are easy for a real expert to debunk - too much feels off.

> He wasn’t following a plan. He was just that kind of person.

Because the article is AI slop, plain and simple.

I would write that prose. It’s very powerful to use small sentences with small words to drive a point home. Like when you are in some drawn out argument about th future with your spouse and your child comes in the room. She says quietly, “please stop fighting I’m hungry”. How do you argue with that? You can’t, it’s just true.

Am I AI slop?

How many times would you use that structure in a single article?

> Am I AI slop?

This is the internet, you could be a dog for all anybody cares. If you write like AI though...

This one definitely does not feel like AI to me. I could be wrong. But it has too much warmth.

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