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I prefer this writing style 100x over the bland AI assisted garbage that I have to read every day.

Give me something with an opinion, personality and evidence of battle scars any day. There’s actually extra signal here that helps me process what I’m reading. When I understand where the author is coming from I can extrapolate, attenuate and compare/contrast the content with my existing mental model far better.

> These are not the same thing. You don't develop skills by reading about them. You have to use them, to process the information, integrate what you've learnt into your existing mental schema,

My mental AI detector would classify that passage as AI-generated with confidence around 85%. It would be 95% if the list had stopped at three items. Regardless of who wrote it, it's the same style.

Not exactly anonymous, but even so:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...

I'm with you. What is the point of that