AI Writing Is Fine — Matthew Phillips
Here I go, making the case for AI writing. I don’t especially want to make this case, but I feel I have to. I get it. The backlash comes for a reason. But people have kind of lost their minds here. If you accept writing software with LLMs, then writing isn’t meaningfully different. Both are intended to be read by humans. Both can be driven by humans, leaving the agent harness as a glorified text editor. That is, you the human are in control. You can do a good job or a poor job. You’ll produce slop, if you allow it. But instead of judging pieces of writing on their own, we have people now looking at every piece of writing they come across with a microscope hunting for AI tells. Slow down. The point of most content is to get a message across. It’s not to make some grandiose statement. It’s not to be elegantly worded. It’s to communicate some direct thing to its audience. In software we spend a lot of time just telling people what work we’ve been doing, release notes being one example. He