• Ai and writing

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Thursday, August 28, 2025 07:42:58
    I listened to an interesting podcast on my way home last night -
    Ditching Hourly, with guest Alastair McDermott.

    https://podcast.ditchinghourly.com/episodes/alastair-mcdermott-the-ai-powered-thought-leader

    Alastair is a writer, and described an interesting setup - using VS Code
    for writing the book, using git for version control, and agentic AI to
    perform roles. He used a program called RU-code to connect AI to VS
    Code.

    He created several "personas" as beta readers, and would ask AI to
    critique writing based on their "perspectives". Another AI was an
    "editor" AI. Another one would make the format wordpress-friendly and
    publish the text.

    He wasn't using github, but storing locally. I do like the idea of
    versioning and backup storage, especially when having AI tweak text -
    you can diff the versions to see if any downstream issues occurred.

    It's quite a contrast from the 45 cent spiral notebook and Bic crystal pen
    I've been using of late. :)




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