Ruining a Blog by Using an LLM

The subject of using AI for blog posts is one that keeps coming up, whether it's writing posts entirely or "just" proof-reading. Readers, generally, don't like it when writing becomes too AI apparent (in one survey 78% of technical readers said they stop reading if a post seems AI authored). This is not an issue that I, as a writer, have ever run up against: I write because I enjoy the process, so it's never made sense for me to outsource any part of that to a chatbot. As a reader, though, I too find AI-written prose extremely frustrating to read. One thing that I've often wondered about, is the extent to which "light" users of AI lose their voice. My expectation is that a shift in voice would be almost imperceptible when checking edits of a single post, but that there may be patterns which emerge across multiple. In this post, I have AI edit all of my posts from 2026 and then surface the changes that it makes. Preparing I created a new repo, copied the posts directory out of my site…