I asked AI to write like me - it wrote three versions, none were me

I had this idea on a lazy Sunday: feed an AI my last 10 blog posts and ask it to write a post in my style. The AI analyzed my writing and said: Your style features short sentences, rhythmic pacing, first-person, rhetorical questions. It delivered three versions. Artsy: Go is like a glass of plain water. Tasteless at first, sweet on the aftertaste. - This reads like Murakami after a compiler course. Not me. Funny: Day 1: What sorcery is this? Day 3: Why am I wasting life on slices? - I do not write like this. Professional: Go type system achieves elegant balance... - Actively avoid this style. All three were good. None were me. I realized the AI did not learn my style. It learned statistical features that correlate with what I have written. My posts were not written by applying a style - they were me thinking and typing. Style is a byproduct, not the goal. I ended up writing the Go article myself. Halfway through, I typed: Go error handling is genuinely tedious. That sentence was not polished, was not styled, was not planned. It was just true. And that sentence - that was me.

Use AI as an editor, not a ghostwriter. Write raw thoughts first, then ask AI to tighten the language.