On Synthetic Interiority in AI Writing

When I used to write for Draft.dev, one thing my editors kept training out of me was vagueness. My editor then, Shane, once gave me a simple rule: If you use a word like “ideal,” don’t leave it floating. Name what is ideal. Show the evidence. That advice still explains why a lot of AI prose feels fake deep today. Lemme show you something. Look at this sentence: “You can laugh with people all day…