I prefer the former version. It sounds like a human.
I like my wording for `miss` better but I like the AI ending much better. This was just in a small two sentence response. I find over the course of an article the impact is much greater.
It is! But not in the direction you think!
> And I write the way I talk. I used to spend whole editing passes beating that out of my drafts.
What's an "editing pass"?
It's when you go top to bottom reworking parts of an article. Often later changes can impact earlier prose, so often I end up doing editing in several passes. That being said AI decided that term. It's actually more accurate to the actual process than what I originally wrote.
Re:Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>
by noman-land on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:26PM
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I prefer the before.
Re:Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>
by ricardobeat on Thursday August 13, 2026 @08:55PM
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FWIW I also prefer the before. "whole editing passes beating that out" and "what I hear in my head, but grammatically sound" might not be immediate AI tells like 'and honestly' and 'load-bearing', but they are phrases you'd expect in a magazine article, not a forum comment. That kind of language in this context makes it smell like AI.
Anyone who has spoken to me knows I talk in run-on sentences. I never complete a thought without interrupting myself. And I write the way I talk. I used to heavily edit that out of my writing, but now AI uses the proper punctuation and fills in where I miss words. It's like what I hear in my head but better. Because it is grammatically sound.
After:
Anyone who's spoken to me knows I talk in run-on sentences. I never complete a thought without interrupting myself. And I write the way I talk. I used to spend whole editing passes beating that out of my drafts. Now AI handles the punctuation and fills in the words I skip. It's what I hear in my head, but grammatically sound.
The result is almost always terser, more clear, and to the point. And usually all it takes is one more pass over to adjust anything I wouldn't say. In this case I kept the after verbatim just to illustrate my point.