It’s the Smell

by · Rant, AI at https://preview.rmoff.net/2026/05/01/its-the-smell/

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It’s now a joy to simply read any blog post that’s not AI-generated.

If you actually have a good thing to write about, for the love of your readers and the good of the internet, please just write about it. Claude might shit out a completed article but it’ll stink. Just like boomer art, readers are recognising this crap at a hundred yards and running away from it. It’s horrible to read, it makes me feel gross just opening it, and it’s going straight in /dev/null.

Morpheus from The Matrix grimacing with caption "IT’S THE SMELL."

Use AI to refine what you want to say, but I (and I’m sure many others) would rather read something imperfect-but-real than a pristine-but-anodyne article that’s in the same style as every other bloody post these days.


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