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'I'm Becoming AI-Blind': Rafal Cymerys Says His Attention Now Filters Out Documents With AI Tells, Costing Him the Signal Inside Them
The August 21 post, 392 points on Hacker News, argues that saturation with low-effort AI text has produced something like banner blindness for prose, and gives concrete triggers: a design doc written in Claude-specific lingo, a 20-page deck mixing real strategy with nonsense like 'The Redis backbone redefines the product', a requirements doc that reads like a model's uncertain internal monologue. The inversion he lands on is that the tool meant to speed him up now slows him down, because he skips material that might be worth reading. He also notes the tells are predictable enough to detect by eye: obvious word choices, melodrama over mundane details, overselling trivial features.
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