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'I'm Becoming AI-Blind' Reached 486 Points by Naming a Cost Nobody Budgets For: Skipping Real Documents Because They Look Generated
A post at cymerys.com drew 486 points and 486 comments arguing the author has developed banner-blindness for AI-generated text, and now skips documents containing genuine information because they carry the tells. The concrete examples are a design doc full of 'Claude-specific analysis and lingo' with lines like 'This cuts just through it', a 20-page marketing deck built on 'It's not selling X, it's selling Y' framing, and a requirements document that reads like uncertain internal reasoning. The argument matters for anyone shipping AI-assisted docs to colleagues: the style tax is now a readership tax.
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