Artificial IntelligenceFebruary 8, 2026
Something corrosive has spread through writing: words produced without care, at scale, for nothing. Call it the enshittification of writing. AI did not start it, but it made the shallow work that once took human effort almost free. The machine…
Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 17, 2026
Adoption numbers, detection accuracy, reader response, publisher policy. What the research supports, what it does not support, and where the figures everyone quotes came from.
Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 5, 2026
It is not bad writing, it is safe writing. It does not lack talent, it lacks scars. It is an excellent writer with nothing to say. Seven reframings of what is wrong with machine prose.
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 31, 2025
The threat is not AI replacing writers. It is other writers using AI replacing you. Which skills stop mattering, which start to matter more, and what the gap looks like in practice.
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 21, 2025
Two published books shipped with the AI conversation still sitting in the manuscript. The exact strings to search for before yours does the same, and where AI genuinely belongs in a book.
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 9, 2025
The anger is not really about the technology. It is about consent, about compensation, and about the fear that craft no longer counts for anything. Three separate grievances that get argued as if they were one.
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 8, 2025
The technology exists, it is improving, and writers are using it whether openly or quietly. The market is adapting regardless of whether anyone approves. The argument about whether that should be true is consuming energy that could go into the…
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 8, 2025
Most disappointing AI output is a briefing problem and not a model problem. What separates a request that produces something useful from one that produces competent, forgettable prose, and why the difference in quality is larger than people expect.
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 8, 2025
AI prose leaves fingerprints and readers register them before they can name them. Hedge phrases, connector parades, sterile rhythm. Five passes, in order, that take machine assisted text and make it sound like a person wrote it.
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 8, 2025
AI is genuinely useful for generating options, synthesising research and spotting patterns in your own work. It cannot judge whether a story works and it cannot produce a voice. Knowing which side of that line a task falls on removes…
Artificial IntelligenceDecember 8, 2025
AI is a brilliant colleague with total amnesia. Useful for generating options, useless for making decisions. A four step workflow, generate, evaluate, select, transform, that treats the tool as what it is instead of what the marketing says it is.
Artificial IntelligenceNovember 25, 2025
Both claims get made loudly and neither survives contact with the evidence. What has changed, what has not changed at all, and where the honest disagreement sits once the shouting stops.
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