Verifiability is part of it, but I think the "semantic ablation" article on the front page really captures my problem with AI-washed writing: https://www.thereg

Verifiability is part of it, but I think the "semantic ablation" article on the front page really captures my problem with AI-washed writing: https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_... I think any use of AI "unrolls" the prompt into a longer but thinner form. This is true of code too I think, but it's still useful because so much of coding is boilerplate and methods that have been written a thousand times before. Great, give me the standard implementation, who cares. But if you're doing hard algorithmic work and really trying to do novel "computer science", I suspect semantic ablation would take an unacceptable toll.