When AI writes the bland version faster

The AI drafts I dislike most are not broken. They are just bland, and now I can make ten of them in a minute.

That is the part I keep noticing.

If I start with a template, AI gives me more template. If I ask for a SaaS landing page, it gives me the same polite page I have seen a thousand times. If I ask for code without really knowing what I want, it gives me code-shaped fog.

It can still be useful. I use it. It is good at first drafts, boring transformations, naming things badly until I find a better name, and getting me unstuck when I have been staring too long.

But it does not care. It has no taste. It will happily produce a paragraph that sounds like a paragraph and says nothing. It will also produce code that looks reasonable until the one branch you forgot about.

It has made me notice my own taste more. Not in a special way. I just spend more time rejecting things that are technically fine.

That applies to writing, UI, code, emails, everything.

Most AI output has the same smell: too balanced, too eager to conclude, too interested in sounding fair. I recognize it because I have shipped that smell by accident.

Sometimes the rough sentence is closer. Sometimes the boring generated one is good enough and I should go make lunch.

I do not always know which one it is.