AI Flood of Cold Emails Means Human-Written Messages Now Get Replied More Than Ever
josh_wills · x · 2026-09-27
Charles jokes that middling generative AI has "fundamentally altered the strategic balance between offense & defense in the war for our attention," so he's ignoring the channel entirely. Shreya adds a counterintuitive corollary: cold emails and DMs that aren't written or inspired by AI are now way more likely to get a response than in pre-AI days — "the bar has never been lower."
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