I Let AI Write My Blog Posts, Then Scored Them for Quality — The Results Were Brutal

I write a lot. Blog posts, docs, READMEs — probably 2,000 words a week. Last month I got lazy and let AI generate a few blog paragraphs for me. They looked fine. Professional, even polished. But something felt off. So I ran them through a readability scorer. The numbers were brutal. The Experiment I took four AI-generated blog paragraphs (the kind ChatGPT/Claude produce when you say "write me a blog intro about web development") and four paragraphs I'd written myself. Then I scored all eight using textlens , an open-source text analysis library. Here's the scoring code — it's dead simple: import { readability , sentiment } from ' textlens ' ; const aiText = `In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, developers are constantly seeking innovative solutions to streamline their workflows and enhance productivity. The emergence of artificial intelligence has fundamentally transformed the way we approach software development, offering unprecedented opportunities for automation and