> And I discovered the pseudo social network that I’d once found cringe is actually full of smart people—who crop up if I’m willing to spend a bit of extra time sharing my writing with them.

Without some heavy sourcing, I am incredibly hesitant to believe this.

The right response is to use AI to write a reply that is verbose and clearly sounds like AI.

> What is so insulting to me about those AI-written messages is that they take less time and consideration to produce than they do to consume.

This is as long as the article needed to be.

I use AI to read articles now so no problem