--- title: Why tech needs a new kind of English major | daily.dev description: AI has made producing plausible prose cheap and abundant, but this has driven down the value of writing and made corporate content increasingly homogenous.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-tech-needs-a-new-kind-of-english-major-hzcsbrcjk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why tech needs a new kind of English major | daily.dev og:description: AI has made producing plausible prose cheap and abundant, but this has driven down the value of writing and made corporate content increasingly homogenous.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-tech-needs-a-new-kind-of-english-major-hzcsbrcjk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hzCsBRcJk.png og:image:alt: Why tech needs a new kind of English major 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. # Why tech needs a new kind of English major **[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI has made producing plausible prose cheap and abundant, but this has driven down the value of writing and made corporate content increasingly homogenous. Research is cited showing AI-assisted writing reduces stylistic variation between texts by 21-50%. The argument is that tech companies need people skilled in judgment, storytelling, and synthesis—not just word generation—to differentiate products, craft sales narratives, and translate between builders, sellers, and buyers, with AI as a helper rather than the voice itself. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does using AI to help write reduce the variety of writing style across different texts? Yes, a Nature Human Behaviour study analyzing more than 880,000 texts found that writing became less varied as AI use spread. In experiments on a subset of those texts, LLM rewriting generally preserved the substance of the writing while reducing variation in writing complexity by 21% to 50%. _Developers weighing AI writing and documentation tools can track findings like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Technical Writing in the AI Age](https://daily.dev/posts/technical-writing-in-the-ai-age-8nv7rdfjb) · CSS-Tricks · 58 upvotes · 4 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#genai](https://daily.dev/tags/genai) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-tech-needs-a-new-kind-of-english-major-hzcsbrcjk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Why tech needs a new kind of English major","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tech-needs-a-new-kind-of-english-major-hzcsbrcjk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tech-needs-a-new-kind-of-english-major-hzcsbrcjk"},"datePublished":"2026-09-01T09:03:49.320Z","dateModified":"2026-09-01T09:04:15.707Z","description":"AI has made producing plausible prose cheap and abundant, but this has driven down the value of writing and made corporate content increasingly homogenous....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/87719c973da04c99211aa5977f8b97f6?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/87719c973da04c99211aa5977f8b97f6?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"InfoWorld","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"InfoWorld","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/bf6d68a999064029b0bb09aa6268f1f3","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tech-needs-a-new-kind-of-english-major-hzcsbrcjk","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm,genai","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"InfoWorld","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Why tech needs a new kind of English major"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/why-tech-needs-a-new-kind-of-english-major-hzcsbrcjk#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Does using AI to help write reduce the variety of writing style across different texts?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, a Nature Human Behaviour study analyzing more than 880,000 texts found that writing became less varied as AI use spread. 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