I'm becoming AI-blind: why I now skim past AI-generated work docs

I'm becoming AI-blind: why I now skim past AI-generated work docs

Developer Rafal Cymerys finds himself unable to focus on documents that show strong traces of AI generation, a phenomenon he compares to banner blindness. He argues that low-effort AI text is easy to spot, citing patterns like verbose reasoning and overselling mundane details, and that this AI-generated content is now slowing him down at work.

If your document describes the checkboxes in an RBAC configuration view for an enterprise application, don't sell it like you've just invented fire.

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2026-08-21