A tweet argues that the defining aesthetic of the current era is computer code, responding to a comment about the century lacking a distinct artistic movement. It suggests code is an invisible yet omnipresent visual and cultural force shaping modern life.
Paul Graham notes that many founder emails now use a hard-hitting journalistic style, which he attributes to AI because founders never wrote that way before. He observes that once an email is identified as AI-written, it's difficult not to ignore it.
Paul Graham says he can tell when emails from founders are written by AI, noting a hard-hitting journalistic style that didn't exist before. He states he has never finished reading an email signed by a human but written by AI, as it feels like being lied to and makes him think less of the author.