my own writing has started sounding like claude and someone at work noticed
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A Reddit user shared that their writing has started to sound like AI, specifically Claude, a fact noticed by three colleagues, including their manager.…
Three separate people have now told me my Slack messages read like AI, and the last one was my manager in a one to one, which is the point where I stopped arguing and admitted they're probably right.
I don't paste anything. That's what makes it annoying. I write my own messages. I've just been reading Claude output for eight hours a day since roughly february and it has beens howing i guess
The tells I've caught in myself so far. I use em dashes constantly (i GENUINELY started using it and tbh it's very comfortable) and I did not do that two years ago. I write "it's not X, it's Y" as a construction about once a paragraph. I end messages with "let me know if you'd like me to expand on any of that" to people who did not ask and do not want that. I have opened a reply with "great question" to a colleague. I put the phrase "load bearing" in a design doc last week and I genuinely cannot tell you anymore whether that is a me word or a Claude word
My manager's actual line was that my updates had become "very polished and slightly hollow", which is the meanest accurate thing anyone has said to me in about a decade