Over Half Say AI-Written Work Emails Make Colleagues Look Less Capable
jkubicki · x · 2026-11-13
Citing a survey showing over half of respondents rate colleagues who send AI-written work messages as less capable, and 42% as less trustworthy, the author argues workplace email has been devalued into an AI slop feedback loop: nobody writes carefully because nobody reads.
A lawyer partner complains that associates, partners, and clients are all "outsourcing their thinking" to him via LLM-generated emails. The author's prescription: stop using LLMs to write to colleagues, do the thinking yourself, write as briefly as the idea allows, and stop replacing writing with meetings — since complex ideas can't be compressed into sound bites.
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