I Let an AI Draft My Performance Review. HR Read It Differently.
The draft was generous. The room read it as a brag.
I asked an AI to turn my messy notes into a performance review and it wrote me as a hero.
Every sentence was a win, every stumble a learning. HR read it as tone-deaf self-promotion.
The model had no sense of how the room would hear the words, only how I'd want them.
I cut the superlatives until it sounded like a person reporting, not auditioning.
The lesson: AI writes the you you wish existed. The review needs the you that actually shipped.
