It’s wild how grammar and punctuation have been sliding for decades, and then AI shows up promising to improve people’s writing—cleaner punctuation, better phrasing, the whole thing. But now the moment someone uses an ellipsis, an em-dash, or even a pre-AI turn of phrase, people scream “AI-generated!” as if creativity suddenly died in 2023.
So what happens? People start intentionally dumbing down their writing to “sound human”—dropping letters, misspelling on purpose, leaning into this bizarre redneck-meets-valley-girl shorthand… all to avoid being accused of using the very tools that were supposed to elevate them.
Meanwhile... vibe coding is widely celebrated as a way to boost productivity, riff new ideas, and accelerate creativity without outsourcing a thing—yet proper writing is treated like a suspicious artifact.
Don’t let any machine think for you. A tool is a tool. If you hand over every part of your mind—coding, writing, reasoning—to a system, that’s not empowerment, that’s dependency. Writers have used ghostwriters for decades. Students have used Grammarly for faster checks. None of that made them less human. It just made the workflow easier… as long as they stayed in the driver’s seat.
Idiocracy really is at hand.
We have tools that could resurrect proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar—and instead there’s a social reward for sounding like you flunked eighth-grade English.
Not me.
Aside from a few modern conventions—using “I” sparingly to avoid sounding like a narcissist, or using some degree of shorthand in private texts for efficiency—I’m going to keep writing properly. I’m going to keep using full sentences. I wrote this way long before AI, and writing has always been one of my strongest skills. I refuse to degrade it for anyone or anything.
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