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Suhrab Khan's avatar

This is a powerful reflection on AI as an amplifier, not a replacement. Your process shows that judgment, creativity, and human discernment remain central, AI simply expands what you can achieve with them.

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Arturo E. Hernandez's avatar

I am amazed and thankful for your post. I have been using a similar process. I had also written a lot. Two books, over 90 articles. My writing was reasonably decent but I know writers. My mom is a writer. I was not a writer. AI assisted writing has liberated me, almost identical to the way it’s done it for you. I can go from idea to essay much more easily. Again it’s so interesting to find someone else with a similar experience.

Michael G Wagner's avatar

Thanks for sharing! I think it is important that these individual processes are made visible. I currently see a lot of gatekeeping and blanket refusal of anything AI. This is not helpful as it drives every legitimate use of AI underground.

Andrew Maynard's avatar

Really useful description of your process, and quite inspiring (although also left me feeling exhausted!) Lots of parallels here with my own approach to AI assisted writing, although interestingly having co-authored an AI-assisted book (for very intentional reasons) I find myself valuing my own craft of writing more and more. And so it's doubly interesting that this human craft aspect also comes through in your approach

Michael G Wagner's avatar

Thanks! This is still a time consuming process. But for me it speeds up creating a text considerably. I went from being able to create about 1k words a day to about 10k.

Eric Lars Martinsen's avatar

I’m so grateful for you taking the time to spell out your process in such detail. This is so close to how I work with AI, and it’s affirming to share that experience with another writer.

Michael G Wagner's avatar

Thanks! Yes, I would guess that quite a few people will converge to a process similar to this one.

Sasan Bahrami's avatar

Thanks Michael, very insightful, This one I like very much due to its genuine approach. Please Keep up posting :XX