42 stories tagged writing, newest first.
29 points by eigenBasis | 11 comments
Daniel Miessler blog post arguing that written intent, via an 'Ideal State Artifact', rather than code should be the source of truth when building software with AI.
384 points by epestr | 362 comments
Blog post by Alex Wennerberg arguing that rationalist community blog posts are excessively long and that verbosity substitutes for thoroughness.
19 points by hangsi | 3 comments
James Somers' 2014 blog post arguing for using the 1913 Webster's Dictionary instead of modern dictionaries for its richer, more literary definitions.
24 points by eustoria | 11 comments
A personal essay by Murphy Trueman about inheriting her mother's writing style and finding that it now reads as if written by AI.
39 points by pepys | 12 comments
A New Yorker critical essay by Louis Menand on the history of punctuation and how it shapes reading, including what changes when machines write sentences.
6 points by zazuke | 5 comments
A personal knowledge-base note by Simon Späti arguing that human-read text should be human-written and comparing AI-bloated writing, prompts, and raw writing.
60 points by spectraldrift | 39 comments
A 2011 Wondermark "True Stuff" post on Socrates' argument in Plato's Phaedrus that writing would harm memory and understanding.
952 points by mooreds | 394 comments
Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.
696 points by joeriddles | 396 comments
Blog post on sockpuppet.org offering two rules for using LLMs to streamline and improve writing without making it bland.
656 points by cyb0rg0 | 408 comments
Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing that using an LLM to write LinkedIn posts reveals a lack of thought, likening it to an open fly.
554 points by chmaynard | 269 comments
Bryan Cantrill blog post arguing, as a reader, against people publishing LLM-authored writing under their own names.
818 points by Ariarule | 328 comments
Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History Substack essay "I like 'em thick," subtitled an apology to his English teachers, apparently about writing style.
973 points by mooreds | 588 comments
A Substack newsletter post by Rick Manelius about the "AI;DR" acronym as a way to ignore walls of AI-generated text, crediting a tweet by @seclilc.
338 points by surprisetalk | 153 comments
A personal blog post on The Universe of Discourse describing the seven books the author keeps on the shelf by his elbow and why he loves them.
611 points by speckx | 319 comments
Blog post by Elizabeth Tai arguing that Substack writers should maintain their own independent websites rather than relying solely on the platform.
1393 points by dwwoelfel | 629 comments
Neal Stephenson's Substack post arguing that writing by hand benefits the brain, with practical advice on how to do it.
430 points by Curiositry | 124 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on John Gruber's critique of website popups and arguing that blogging can simply be stating the obvious.
520 points by garycomtois | 201 comments
A Substack essay by writer Shawn Smucker titled "Please Use AI," published on his newsletter The Courage to Live It.
449 points by gnabgib | 407 comments
Sentinel Colorado article about a college instructor who has students use typewriters to prevent AI-written assignments and teach life lessons.
690 points by karimf | 222 comments
Blog post by Alex Woods arguing against using LLMs to write documents and essays, since writing is a way to think and build trust.
578 points by ssiddharth | 228 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI-written text isn't worth reading, since writing reveals how a person thinks and outsourcing it to an LLM defeats the purpose.
742 points by andsoitis | 221 comments
Gwern blog post arguing that nonfiction writing should open by making the reader care, e.g. with a compelling question, rather than with background.
588 points by gnabgib | 353 comments
A blog post from disassociated arguing that personal blogs have made a comeback and asking whether niche, topic-focused blogs should return too.
416 points by zdw | 103 comments
A first-person essay by Bud Smith on The Paris Review blog about writing at a makeshift desk in his truck.
1121 points by speckx | 500 comments
Personal blog post arguing that publishing AI-generated blog posts is rude to readers and urging people to write in their own words.
588 points by bradgessler | 367 comments
Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.
1282 points by claytonwramsey | 766 comments
Blog post by Clayton Ramsey arguing that LLM-generated student answers are verbose and empty, and that he would rather read the prompt that produced them.
584 points by Stratoscope | 437 comments
Merriam-Webster grammar guide explaining how to use em dashes, en dashes, and hyphens.
370 points by kolyder | 85 comments
A personal blog essay on kupajo arguing that writing gives structure to thinking and helps escape distraction and default mental patterns.
681 points by alexgiann | 307 comments
A personal blog post from February 2025 arguing for the value of blogging even when few or no people read it.
528 points by swapxstar | 220 comments
A personal blog post by Swapnil Chauhan reflecting on how procrastination with reading and writing stems from fear of not being good enough.
447 points by lawn | 215 comments
Jonas Hietala's personal blog post reflecting on why he has kept blogging for 15 years and how the blog started.
326 points by ohjeez | 76 comments
Blog post by Eric Bailey on how descriptive techniques from running Dungeons & Dragons games inform writing good image alt text for accessibility.
357 points by Luc | 110 comments
Essay by Henrik Karlsson on Escaping Flatland about using writing as a tool for thinking, Part 1: The thought behind the thought.
358 points by surprisetalk | 357 comments
A Dynomight essay arguing that people should stop referring to centuries by ordinal numbers like "18th century" and use clearer date ranges such as "the 1700s" instead.
390 points by andyjohnson0 | 137 comments
Kent Beck's Substack post advising presenters to start on the second slide (in media res) to grab audience attention, deferring background material.
327 points by mmoustafa | 117 comments
A Substack essay titled "Feynman's Razor" arguing that if an expert can't understand your explanation, you've dumbed it down too much.
469 points by EthanDBrooks | 118 comments
A blog post on The Write to Roam offering advice on how to write distinctive work that no one else could produce.
597 points by twapi | 149 comments
Addy Osmani blog post arguing that writing about what you learn deepens understanding and reveals gaps in your knowledge.
328 points by PaulHoule | 129 comments
Dirt essay by Becca Schuh about working as both a writer and a restaurant server.
350 points by 42point2 | 152 comments
Andreas Fragner's blog post arguing that writing summaries of good books yields more comprehension than reading more books.
874 points by blueridge | 532 comments
Paul Graham Twitter thread observing people rapidly switching to ChatGPT for writing and warning that losing the ability to write erodes thinking.