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Comment by whimblepop

3 hours ago

> There are many reasons why others might not find what you wrote sufficient to understand it. You boss ran it through AI for a reason and that reason was most likely because it the document was not understandable or perhaps confusing.

It could also be because their manager is less technical. It's not unusual in my life for a PM to try to "rephrase" or restate things I've written in order to make them "easier to understand" in a way that in fact falsifies them or makes them more difficult to understand for the people who will actually have to work on/with it.

PM: "X party needs to know about Y thing"

"Tell them [very specific answer targeted at X party]"

PM: "They are still asking about Y, see their response with the follow up question"

Then in the original send of [specific thing] PM has transformed it into [something else]. X party has followed up with a question that was answered by [specific thing]. Yes PM you might have been confused but you weren't the target.

This cycle happens very often.