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A piece by Craig Simpson titled '7am', shared by Paul Graham, likely an essay or article on personal or professional topics relevant to the tech industry.
A blog post arguing that writing about topics you don't fully understand forces learning and clear thinking, and that framing every post as a controversial argument makes consistent writing easier.
Shane Parrish reflects on AI watermarking and detection, arguing that humans are adapting to write like AI, making watermarking unreliable. He invokes McLuhan's idea that tools shape us, and concludes we should judge the work, not the tool.
The article ponders whether AI is subtly changing human vocabulary and punctuation habits, sparked by a post about Claude's word choices and em-dash avoidance.
Dan Shipper shares an article about the downsides of leaving AI voice mode on while writing.
Gwern announces he is retiring from full-time writing to launch a new company, Guardian Angel Inc.
A developer built an open-source benchmark called The Slop Index to measure how much 18 AI models produce 'AI slop', using human baselines and five dimensions including conciseness, templating, and human preference.
Bruce Schneier argues that writing assignments help develop critical thinking skills, and warns that over-reliance on AI can cause these skills to atrophy, as employers are already noticing.
A writer vents about being repeatedly accused of using AI for their writing, criticizing the unreliability of AI detectors and the chilling effect on writing style.
A user shares their positive experience with Gemma 4 26b A4b, praising its speed, multimodal ability, and strong language capabilities, especially in German, while noting it handles various tasks well despite not matching Qwen's agentic and coding performance.
A blog post about repurposing an old ThinkPad as a dedicated writing machine running Debian and Emacs, inspired by Veronica Explains' writerdeck concept, with tips on configuration and file syncing via Git.
The user finds that using K3 as a research and first draft assistant for commercial video script writing is surprisingly effective.
A developer built a guardrail that monitors AI agent output in real-time, as it writes, rather than after completion.
Gergely Orosz tests new AI models like Fable and GPT-6 by asking them to write articles in his style from his interviews, but finds they fail spectacularly, producing lots of words without understanding.
A developer shares frustration with traditional word processors and presents an experiment to turn Typst into a WYSIWYG editor optimized for e-ink tablets, leveraging AI to generate templates from descriptions.
A Twitter user compares GLM5.2 and Deepseek V4 Pro, praising GLM5.2 for programming at near-AGI level but finding it inferior to Deepseek V4 Pro in writing, particularly for outlines and romance novels.
The author complains about severe Claude account bans, making it difficult for users to use official accounts normally. For coding, codex and glm5.2 can replace Claude, but there is no perfect substitute for writing and thinking, only deepseek and gemini barely usable.
Matt Pocock announces that his 'writing-great-skills' tool, invoked via npx, is becoming his most frequently used skill for writing skills.
The author argues that the key question about AI-generated content should not be 'did AI write this?' but rather what human judgment and taste were applied before output, emphasizing the need for context, evidence, and editorial decision-making.
An article by Robert J. Sawyer defending the use of WordStar, a classic DOS word processor, for creative writing, with testimonials from famous authors.