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Writing about writing.
Thoughts on AI autocomplete, productivity, and the craft of putting words together.
Why AI writing help should live inside the sentence
Most writing friction happens mid-sentence. Inline AI help keeps your momentum, preserves authorship and fits the way real writing happens.
The first week with AI autocomplete
AI autocomplete feels strange for a day or two. Then the friction starts disappearing, and the speed shows up in the small pieces of writing you do all day.
The people who write all day and do not think of themselves as writers
Most people do operational writing all day without calling it writing. That is why AI autocomplete fits real work better than chat.
Why AI writing subscriptions feel expensive faster than you expect
The professionals who cannot use cloud AI for writing
Why asking your AI for help is already too late
The problem with AI tools that remember everything
The cost of switching context to use AI
Every time you stop typing to open a chatbot, you pay a cognitive tax. Here's what that actually costs.
Why AI autocomplete feels weird at first (and when it clicks)
New users almost always have the same reaction to AI ghost text: unsettling. Then, a few days later, they can't imagine going back. Here's what's actually happening.
What actually happens when an AI tool reads your typing
Most AI writing tools send everything you type to a server. Here's what that means in practice, and why local AI works differently.
AI autocomplete is not AI writing
Most people treat AI autocomplete and AI writing as the same category. They're not. Here's why the difference matters for how you write.
The attorney-client privilege problem with AI writing tools
Most cloud AI tools receive your keystrokes on a third-party server. For lawyers, that creates a specific and underappreciated ethics risk.