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Cut the marketing voice - developers smell it instantly

Use "Cut the marketing voice - developers smell it instantly" to tell the two cases apart, then say what tips the choice.

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Cut the marketing voice - developers smell it instantly

The audience treats marketing copy as an adversarial input. Words like integrated, powerful, revolutionary and automatic-sounding are negative signals: they tell an engineer the writer is selling, not showing. Replace every adjective with a demonstration.

MARKETING VOICE VS DEVELOPER VOICE

Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.

diagram: compare

Same product, two registers - only one survives a skeptical engineer's first ten seconds.