Writing with one of these open

1. First Drafts That Do Not Look It

   The tell is not vocabulary. It is structural sameness, hedging, and a particular kind of empty competence. What to do about each.

   Procedure

2. Detectors and Humanisers

   One category accuses innocent people, the other makes text worse to evade it. The whole exchange rests on a task that cannot be done reliably.

   Analysis

3. A Research Workflow That Holds Up

   The failure mode is a fluent summary of sources that do not say what it claims. A sequence that catches it before you publish.

   Procedure

4. AI for Search Content, Honestly

   Generating volume is now trivial, which is exactly why it stopped working. What search engines actually penalise, and what remains worth doing.

   Analysis

5. Editing Rather Than Generating

   The underused mode, and the one that improves your writing instead of replacing it. Specific prompts that produce useful criticism rather than praise.

   Procedure

6. What Machine Translation Misses

   Good enough for understanding, risky for publishing, and dangerous in specific situations. Where the line falls and how to work across it.

   Analysis

7. Transcription and Voice Tools

   Automatic transcription became genuinely good, with specific failure patterns that matter if anyone relies on the transcript.

   Reference

8. Where AI Writing Help Works

   A candid list of tasks where using a model is straightforwardly good, and where it is a bad idea, without either enthusiasm or suspicion.

   Reference

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