I'm becoming AI-blind(cymerys.com)
385 points by rcymerys 23 hours ago | 380 comments
tl;dr: The author notices their brain increasingly tunes out documents at work that show telltale signs of AI generation—verbose reasoning, over-hyped phrasing, and Claude-isms—similar to "banner blindness" for ads. After being conditioned by low-effort AI slop across LinkedIn, emails, and websites, they've developed a reflex to skim past such content, which ironically makes AI-assisted coworkers less productive to collaborate with rather than more.
HN Discussion:
  • Brain short-circuits or exhausts itself trying to parse AI-generated text as meaningless
  • AI-generated code comments and technical docs are especially unreadable and need replacement
  • ~Tech workers who use AI daily easily recognize AI text, but others may not care
  • LLMs lack the insight/pruning intelligence that gives human communication meaning
  • Claude's writing quality has noticeably degraded recently, worsening the problem