Tag: writing
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AI is a tool, not a weapon
Q: And do you see the rise of such LLMs as a threat to human creativity, or as another medium through which creativity can be extended? … Mark: They’re a threat to human creativity only in the sense that the billionaire thieves and knaves who control so much of the AI Industry and the fascists…
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How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
First Claude code hook prank? 🔗 How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
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How I tell AI to write in my style, other people’s styles – and how to strip out shitty AI talk and LinkedIn language
An agent skill to remove AI writing tells, LinkedIn style, and write like Coté.
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In 5 years, nobody will give a damn about AI-detectors.
Five years from now, asking ‘Is this AI?’ will feel about as urgent and meaningful as asking whether a photo was taken on film or digital. 🔗 In 5 years, nobody will give a damn about AI-detectors.
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Make the Cheapest Game You Can
Find a collection of images you did not request and could not control. Study it. Build a playable game from what is already there. It forces you to stop treating art as decoration added after the important work is finished. It teaches you to recognize visual themes, write within limitations, cut material that does not…
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Relative to your interests, Tuesday
I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…
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🤖 Ten do’s and don’ts for LinkedIn posts, according to actual research, based on pre-slop posts
Summarized by AI, July 2, 2026. Original” What Users Post and Engage With on LinkedIn: A Mixed Methods Study Most LinkedIn advice comes from people whose job is giving LinkedIn advice, which should make you suspicious. So here’s something rarer: an actual peer-reviewed study of 1,001 individual users’ posts, coded by topic and compared on…
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What Users Post and Engage With on LinkedIn: A Mixed Methods Study – Daniel Usera, Samuel Cox, Laramie Walker, 2026
🤖 Study of 1,001 LinkedIn posts finds Business content dominates the feed (43%) but Interpersonal posts – thanking, congratulating, and tagging other people – win the most reactions and comments; Observance and Business posts win reposts; Expertise/thought-leadership posts underperform despite being the second most common category. 🔗 What Users Post and Engage With on LinkedIn:…
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Use AI to write more shorter pieces
While people are all excited shout using LLMs to write – which is awesome, I am all about AI empowering people to do things they didn’t have the agency to do, writing being one of them – I am imploring y’all to get the LLMs to write more concisely. I am looking at all y’all…
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I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment
A fiction writing teacher at MIT since 2017 on students using AI and what their confessions produced. The objection is not only the perfectly polished but mediocre prose, but what is lost when the struggle to translate thought into words is surrendered. Summarized by AI. 🔗 I knew my writing students were using AI. Their…
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Because it seems fancy pants and authoritative: The generally accepted hypothesis to explain this overuse ties back LLMs’ training and reinforcement processes. As models learn to predict language patterns, they begin to use their learned patterns to do so. However, this isn’t the only factor determining which patterns get used more often. Models like Claude and ChatGPT have an…
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When to use AI for writing, and when it’s totally acceptable
If you’re dyslexic and just trying to communicate more clearly in writing, or you’ve got a bullshit job and you just want to get your bullshit job’s bullshit tasks out of the way so you can move on to more meaningful endeavors, or at least move past the day-to-day slog that permeates your workday and…
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After years of playing [solo role-playing], I have developed a personal rule about rolling dice: only roll if the potential outcome advances _or _enhances _the narrative. If rolling would throw the story off track in a way that doesn’t _enhance the narrative or creates an unnecessary or nonsensical detour, I won’t roll. Also, an interesting…
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