u/Revolutionary_Bag335

Does anybody have the artist presale code for the new dates? Pretty please :)

I’m tired of having to remove em-dashes from my 100% human-written content. If I had a penny for every time I've been called out for using AI to write, I would have 3 pennies, but it’s crazy that it's happened 3 times in the past 6 months.

There’s a certain ‘standard’ in professional writing that was set before AI, then mimicked by AI… and now, I can no longer tell if I am writing like AI or if AI is writing like me. I miss the time when my em dashes and “It’s not A, it’s B” sentence structures were not incriminating.

So, for everyone who is currently struggling or is unaware, here is my not-so-exhaustive list of AI phrases and  patterns to remove from your content:

• “Quietly”
• “Seismic shifts”
• It’s less like A, and more like B
• It’s not A. It’s B. And it’s causing C.
• Excessive use of colons (are colons the new em-dash?)
• Saying “actually” a lot
• “But here’s the thing:”
• The rule of three :(

Do you remove AI writing/speech patterns from your work? Any other ‘AI tells’ that I’ve missed?

I’ll end this post with my verdict — I love me an em-dash, and am beginning to love the occasional grammatical error.

I’ve been looking into different CMS platforms and small issues that people are running into. It feels like it’s always the tiny things that can take a CMS from being great to something you just cannot deal with anymore. 

I’m curious if anyone here can relate. What are the things that keep coming up for your team and slow you down over time? Like the day-to-day stuff that starts to get frustrating. 

Particularly for those who use Adobe AEM, Sitecore, or Contentful, it’ll be helpful to hear what shows up in practice. 

What has been the most annoying or time-consuming issue your team keeps running into?

I’m part of a mid-size enterprise team currently running on Adobe AEM, and we’re starting to evaluate other CMS options. We manage multiple sites across regions with a mix of marketing and editorial teams. AEM is starting to slow us down. Our dev team keeps running into long build cycles and a lot of work for relatively simple content updates. Small changes take longer than they should and our editors are frustrated with the UX.

At this point we’re less concerned about feature depth and more focused on usability and how quickly teams can ship content. We’re also trying to reduce our dependence on dev resources for day-to-day updates. We’re looking for something that can handle enterprise-level traffic and governance but is easier to manage across teams.

A few things we care about:

• Flexible content modeling and structured content
• Strong editorial workflow and permissions
• Multi-site management across regions
• Easier integrations with tools like OneDrive APIs and analytics platforms
• Some level of AI support for content operations or automation
• Faster implementation and less dev dependency for updates

I’ve seen platforms like Brightspot, Contentful and others come up that look good on paper but would love to hear your personal experience with the platform. If you’ve migrated off AEM or compared AEM vs other CMS platforms in an enterprise setup, what did you end up choosing and why? Anything you wish you knew earlier?