---
title: "Rewrites vs fixes: Losing personal touch."
author: "Lax Mariappan"
date: "2025-07-28"
categories: ["AI"]
excerpt: "We default to agentic mode for everything: content, code, the works. But which path makes sense here? Here’s what bothers me: these tools don’t just fix errors.They rewrite entire thoughts. My drafts sound like me, but they need a lot of refinement. But the edited version doesn’t sound like me at all. Are we losing […]"
canonical_url: "https://laxmariappan.com/rewrites-vs-fixes-losing-personal-touch/"
---

# Rewrites vs fixes: Losing personal touch.

We default to agentic mode for everything: content, code, the works. But which path makes sense here?

Here’s what bothers me: these tools don’t just fix errors.They rewrite entire thoughts.

My drafts sound like me, but they need a lot of refinement. But the edited version doesn’t sound like me at all.

Are we losing our uniqueness?Maybe that’s fine if the machine writes better than we do.