AI does not write these. I do.

My mom has always been an English teacher. She took a few years out to manage a billing office for anesthesiologist, but I’m quite sure her heart was in the classroom, even then. She taught me much of what I know of writing. One of the biggest lessons?

Write in threes.

But guess who else has been programmed to write in threes?

ChatGPT. Claude. Gemini. Grok. Perplexity. Jasper. You name him. (of course it’s a him).

I was mortified when I googled ‘how to tell AI writing’ and saw that the two dead giveaways are the threes and the em dash. Damn it if the way I write — or speak for that matter — doesn’t come out sounding like a chatbot.

But I swear this is me. This is how I write. This is what I know.

(see?)

I hope you know me well enough to know that.