Mastodawn

Two reasons why I’m not interested in letting AI ghostwrite for me:

1) Writing is how I think things through and come to conclusions.

2) Above all, I am motivated by the possibility that I have not yet written the best thing I’ll ever write.

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

WIRED

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Jeff Atwood 2d ago

@harrymccracken why is it all or nothing? Why not centaur it?

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Harry McCracken 1d ago

@codinghorror I use AI in all sorts of ways in my work, but the actual assembling of words I don’t want to turn over to someone (or something) else. Especially when my byline is on it.

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Jeff Atwood 1d ago

@harrymccracken sure the centauring is just fine, would you turn over your whole column to another HUMAN? If so? Why???

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Harry McCracken

@codinghorror As many of my editors would probably tell you, I am not always even that great with being edited. (I can read a published work of mine from ten years ago and spot the edits. Even when they’re good!)