This article feels off to me. It's such a human topic, but written in an entirely AI voice. I've been noticing this more frequently lately, and it makes things I read feel inauthentic.

It feels like some of our human-ness is being taken away. Writing is such a beautiful technology that carries ideas from one persons head into another. But now we put AI in the middle and I worry how much of the message is being corrupted.

I agree, but what's the alternative for some people?

What if most of these cases of AI usage is a matter of accessibility, not malice or bot spam, and the reason we suddenly see so much AI usage is because all these people never had a voice in english before?

To be clear, I assume the author here is well-intentioned, and I certainly don't see this as spam or malice.

That said, I'm sure that what I read now has more noise and less signal than it did a couple of years ago, which I find very sad. More and more of the writing I read daily is clearly AI generated, and it seems that a large proportion of it comes from people with a clear "quantity over quality" mindset. Even reading messages from people I know (who speak English well), I find it's frequently AI generated - I assume because they don't want to summon the effort to write it themselves, and find AI generated text "good enough".

yes, i mutter to the screen "why not just give us your prompt and let us think about it?"

Then you write in your own language or in broken English, or you study the language you want to write in? If you can't write a text at all (even with plenty of mistakes), you hardly can review AI output. So, you just let AI write something for you that you might not even mean?

This is not "I need to communicate with a doctor" or another necessity, if you put content out there, presumably it's because you want to communicate. You want to write in another language? That's great, learn the language and help yourself with a vocabulary, even a translator, but write yourself (which is also a way to learn).

I am saying this as a non-English speaker, as it might be obvious.

Great move Bose! I hope this trend continues - it's really nice to see a vibrant market for used/vintage electronic products in some categories (e.g. old iPods) rather than them just contributing to more e-waste.

I wonder how far we are down the track of enshittification of cloud providers... and how much more is to come.

Thank you! I find this really helpful for identifying tools I can learn from, or that might be useful in my upcoming projects.

Microsoft Office was a very strong brand, with decades of brand recognition and an enormous amount of value. This feels very much like throwing out the baby with the bathwater here ... while I can see the reasons for doing it, it very much seems like they're losing a lot from this name change.

Dunno if I can see the reasons for doing it. Imagine this in another product:

    Coca-cola 24/7 autopilot beverage (formerly sprite)

"yo dude, I need me a sip of that ice cold M (formerly known as Coca-Cola)!"

The M stands for mmmmm.

I find my brain needs 5-10 minute gaps to learn/remember things properly, and to be able to focus.

If I try to fill that time with more (podcasts, reading, etc.) it just makes me more on edge and degrades the value of other things I do during the day.

Probably the best use of those gams in my day is to look back through things I've already written down earlier in the day. Things like meeting notes, my todo list, random thoughts, etc. I keep a notebook in my pocket and pens/paper on my desk for exactly this.