Last week someone accused me of being a robot. Can you believe it? The reviewer responded with "This reads like it was written by ChatGPT." I guess I had spent 40 seconds on that. ## The new suspicion tax
For years, we have been advising developers to improve their writing. Writing clear commits, readable comments, and documentation that does not make others cry. Writing clearly is now considered a crime. There is a whole discussion on a developer forum about this. Where people make well-structured comments and are accused of being AI. The solution it seems is to write badly on purpose then. 🙃
Developers are deliberately including typos in the code. Tiny, deliberate grammatical errors are added to show that a human wrote it and made a mistake. That's the sad reality. We are simplifying things not because we don't want to make an effort, but as a survival strategy. ## Somebody built a business on this
April 2026 saw the launch of a Chrome extension called Sinceerly, created by a Harvard Business School developer Ben Horwitz. The interesting thing about it? The name was misspelled on purpose. It is advertised as the opposite of Grammarly. Rather than correcting your writing, it breaks your writing using AI. The "Human" mode will make your text sound like it was written by a talkative human, and the "CEO" mode will make it sound like a text written by a busy top executive. Horwitz tested the tool's efficiency by sending typo-filled cold emails to five Fortune 500 CEOs. Four of them responded. After you've tried it for free, you only pay $4.99 per month to stop sounding so smart. Just think about that for a minute. We built AI to write for us. Now we pay a different AI to un-write it. ## The detectors made this worse
