About 15–20 of 125 essays in a no-AI challenge reportedly used AI heavily

Gergely Orosz says about 15–20 of the 125 submissions to The Pragmatic Engineer essay challenge used AI heavily despite a no-AI requirement. He says he has to ignore them because distinguishing contributors' own thoughts and lessons from what AI made up would take too much work. In an earlier post, he argued that avoiding AI helps writing and videos stand out from similar-sounding AI-assisted material.