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James Yu catalogs literary awards granted to works where AI was used or suspected in the writing process, from Japan's Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi prizes that allowed AI from the start to contests where AI use surfaced later.
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Marcin Wichary unpacks the 1990s Unix email error “User unknown: Not a typewriter,” tracing it to case-sensitive usernames, sendmail, and the ENOTTY errno message, and what it says about writing error messages.
2 min · 512 words
Phil Eaton explains why The Consensus added an 'AI tells' detector to its curated technical-writing feed, so it can keep freely promoting thoughtfully human-written articles while letting readers filter likely AI-written ones.
2 min · 526 words
David Rudnick on the borderline impossible process of designing a bespoke Arsenal typeface
Olivia Hingley interviews designer David Rudnick and collaborator Johnnie Campbell about Rocastle, a bespoke Arsenal typeface: the research, constraints of football branding, and why crafting a club-specific type system felt borderline impossible.
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Will Lachance refines his Implementation Decision Records (IDRs), short documents meant both to get better output from LLM coding agents and to leave a durable record of implementation decisions, arguing they should capture the problem, goals, non-goals and intended result rather than a step-by-step plan.
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On using AI as a writing assistant
Nina I. Shamsi, who calls herself a bad writer because her explanations wander, describes how she uses AI as a writing assistant: breaking writing into stages such as brief, outline, drafting and review, the components through which AI helps organise each stage, and the versioned artifacts produced, while admitting the process is still unfinished.
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Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries
Longtime Wikipedia editor Ruben Schade describes getting paid and unpaid requests to scrub contentious material from articles—and draws a hard line against editing for hire or removing valid citations.
1 min · 224 words
Daniel Lawrence Lu visits San Francisco’s Muni Heritage Weekend—historic streetcars, museum cars, and notes on transit nostalgia and the city’s working rail heritage.
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How we turned my voice into a skill
Francesco Castronuovo documents building a writing-voice skill from small experiments rather than cloning old posts—keeping uncertainties visible so AI assistance stays attributable and editable.
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Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy
Clay engineer Sophie Alpert explains the company-wide AI writing policy: stand behind every sentence, treat writing as thinking, respect readers' time, and reject padded AI slop.
4 min · 993 words