Lulu Cheng Meservey frames genuine AI skill as the judgment to skip automation entirely on certain tasks, using Satya Nadella's decision to write his own year-ahead post as the concrete example rather than a generic endorsement of tools.
Satya wrote this article himself, in contrast to a lot of the AI-generated responses
Dario’s essays, roon’s tweets, Noam Brown’s posts, all slop-free too
A counterintuitive measure of AI fluency is knowing how not to overrely on it
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Founders and executives who still type their own words stand out when AI output floods feeds, and Meservey's note highlights how that choice itself becomes visible proof of fluency.
The discussion leaves open how teams decide which pieces deserve the human-only treatment without clear rules or examples beyond the Nadella case.
Positive users appreciate Satya Nadella writing his own article to avoid AI slop because it values authentic human content, while negative users call the piece badly written CEO slop or criticize any reliance on AI for thinking and writing.
@lulumeservey Going direct - don’t use AI to write your content.
Satya wrote this article himself, in contrast to a lot of the AI-generated responses
Dario’s essays, roon’s tweets, Noam Brown’s posts, all slop-free too
A counterintuitive measure of AI fluency is knowing how not to overrely on it
@lulumeservey not a fully formed thought but its very clear the future high status content delivery format will be voice memos / riffs on ideas. proof of human love and labor
@Martinoleary Lazy AI writing. There’s a way to edit tastefully, just no one does
@lulumeservey do you think all ai writing is bad or just lazy ai writing?
@WillManidis http://Agreed.As the scenes become slop, the behind the scenes will become the new scenes
@Martinoleary Yeah, I use AI all the time for workshopping, just not copying and pasting the output. The finished product is always hand crafted
@lulumeservey Maybe it comes under having standards and taste.
@lulumeservey Yeah, not enough to simply have Claude mispel
@lulumeservey you can send slop to all of the people some of the time
or you can send slop to some of the people all of the time
but you can’t send slop to all of the people all of the time
@lulumeservey so you think ai as a ghost writer has some potential if done right? reason i ask is many people are just hard core anti ai writing.
@Martinoleary @lulumeservey I think the AI writing that subsumes the author’s voice, and obviates intent is what we need to callout as bad.
@WillManidis @lulumeservey @ryandawidjan vision
@seventhmeal A lot of overlap
@Martinoleary @lulumeservey Editing can be done in a way that preserves or even strengthens intent. Typically it means you’re driving the “editor” AI.
@vixsheikh @lulumeservey but isn’t that assuming no editing?
@lulumeservey Dario's essays are too long they could each be a book
@vixsheikh @lulumeservey so you agree ai drafting is ok once it’s edited by the writer?
@lulumeservey AI is like a 7/10 writer, and people who are actual good writers can use it like autopilot at cruise altitude but grab the yoke themselves for the high-leverage situations. Most people are 6/10 writers or worse, so they get stuck in the slop quicksand.
@mikepilla 😄
@sriramk Claude as new middleman!