Writing with AI without sounding like a robot
AI is a great intern and a terrible ghostwriter. Use it for the parts it's good at and edit the rest.
By Ren Okafor · 2026-04-07
Hand the whole job to AI and readers can tell. Use it for the grunt work and keep your voice on top, and it becomes genuinely useful.
Where it helps
- Outlines — beat the blank page in seconds.
- Rewrites — tighten a clunky paragraph.
- Variations — five subject lines to choose from.
The ruleLet AI draft; you decide. Cut the throat-clearing, add a real example, and it stops sounding generated.