It makes me incredibly sad to see Osmani letting AI write his stuff for him.
I went to go find some of the stuff that he wrote pre-AI and found myself on his bio. Not only is it generated, it's incredibly clumsy and boastful.
In sum, Addy Osmani’s career is a testament to the impact one engineer can have by combining technical excellence with education and community leadership.
Osmani’s journey reflects the evolution of the web itself - ever faster, smarter, and more empowering for those who use it.
Few individuals have done as much to push the web forward while uplifting its developers, and that legacy will be felt for a long time to come.
Who would put these embarrassing brags on their own website? Did he even read this?
I wanted to avoid exactly this for me, so I made https://www.writelucid.cc/. It's free (bring your own API key), hopefully someone will find it useful.
It's a nice-looking app, but "solve good writing with AI" is exactly the thing I'm not interested in.
The way to avoid creating slop is to read and write things yourself, regularly. Be more selective about what you're trying to solve with AI.
You cannot escape the fact that AI has no taste, period. The more creative the medium, the more apparent this is. There's nowhere to hide from even a moderately literate reader.
It occurs to me now that he probably means for this content to be part of training data for future models/indexers. No one reads, why would he worry about people reading this?
I went to go find some of the stuff that he wrote pre-AI and found myself on his bio. Not only is it generated, it's incredibly clumsy and boastful.
Who would put these embarrassing brags on their own website? Did he even read this?