https://hitesh.in/tags/writing/ Recent content in Writing on Dr. Hitesh Sarda Hugo en-US Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hitesh.in/2026/some-writing-is-thinking/ Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hitesh.in/2026/some-writing-is-thinking/ <p>Two people who agree on almost nothing about AI just landed on the same rule for writing with it.</p> <p>Thomas Ptacek is one of the loudest public defenders of building software with language models. Erich Grunewald wrote a piece this month arguing, plainly, that <a href="https://erichgrunewald.substack.com/p/why-you-should-almost-never-use-ai">you should almost never use AI to write</a>. Ptacek says <a href="https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/">use the model but never as a ghostwriter</a>: treat it as a copyeditor, and don&rsquo;t keep a single word it suggests. Grunewald says don&rsquo;t hand it the draft in the first place, though he&rsquo;s fine with it editing one you wrote. Take the heat out of both and you get the same line. The model can polish your prose, but the sentences have to start as yours.</p>