--- title: On not becoming a cyborg | daily.dev description: A software engineer reflects on how heavy use of AI coding agents like Claude has started to influence his own writing style and vocabulary, with phrases like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/on-not-becoming-a-cyborg-ta33ixidw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: On not becoming a cyborg | daily.dev og:description: A software engineer reflects on how heavy use of AI coding agents like Claude has started to influence his own writing style and vocabulary, with phrases like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/on-not-becoming-a-cyborg-ta33ixidw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ta33ixIDw.png og:image:alt: On not becoming a cyborg og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # On not becoming a cyborg **[Read the Tea Leaves](https://daily.dev/sources/nolanlawson)** · 7 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A software engineer reflects on how heavy use of AI coding agents like Claude has started to influence his own writing style and vocabulary, with phrases like 'load-bearing' and 'belt-and-suspenders' creeping into his prose. Drawing on linguistic immersion (accents, second-language absorption) and past experience being shaped by corporate-speak, he argues that resisting this AI-influenced 'voice' is a deliberate act of staying human. He avoids using LLMs for his own writing (even spellchecking), has given up trying to preserve his own coding style since Claude's stylistic quirks aren't worth fighting, and advocates clearly marking AI-authored text so readers know what's machine-generated versus human-written. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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