I'm becoming AI-blind

Let's be honest: "AI-blind" is the most accurate two-word description of 2025's internet yet. The essay over at cymerys.com hits a nerve that's been vibrating under every Hacker News thread, every GitHub PR, every "thoughtful" blog post that arrives fully-formed with zero typos and zero personality. The author describes the moment you realize you've stopped asking "did a human write this?" and started just assuming it doesn't matter. And the scary part? They're right. This isn't nostalgia for the good old days of the web. It's a systemic failure of signal. When every tool in your dev stack autocompletes your comments, every search result is an SEO soup cooked by an LLM, and every "community" discussion has bots seeding engagement, the brain does what brains do: it tunes out the noise. But here's the trap—we're tuning out the noise *and* the signal together. The hallucinated API docs, the confidently-wrong Stack Overflow answers, the license-noncompliant code snippets that look *just* clean enough. Your bullshit detector isn't broken; it's been retired. The deeper problem is that AI-blindness is asymmetric. The people pumping out AI content (whether it's marketing drivel, fake "open source" projects, or astroturfed forum posts) have no incentive to stop. The cost of generating garbage is asymptotically approaching zero, while the cost of sifting through it—in attention, in trust, in time—keeps climbing. Open source was supposed to be the antidote to closed, opaque systems. But when maintainers use AI to churn out "improvements" they haven't fully vetted, and consumers use AI to skim code they barely understand, we're building a house of cards where nobody knows who's actually holding the hammer. What's the fix? It's not watermarking, not detection tools, not regulation. It's punishing laziness with reputation. The open source ecosystem runs on trust signals—maintainer history, review depth, test coverage, and yes, the human fingerprints in the prose. When those signals get flattened by AI homogenization, we need to be *more* aggressive about curating, not less. Demand the messy code comment. Insist on the git blame that doesn't look like a copy-paste job from GPT-5. If we go fully AI-blind, we won't even notice when the commons have been completely enclosed by machines. The source is right here: https://cymerys.com/w/im-becoming-ai-blind — go read it before you can't tell it wasn't written by a bot.