How I Write With AI

The process

It starts with a brain dump — raw thoughts, notes, sometimes just bullet points. Whatever’s in my head about the topic, unfiltered.

From there, I use AI to interview me. It asks questions to draw out more detail, find gaps in my reasoning, and challenge assumptions. Not softballs — more like talking to a sharp colleague who doesn’t let you hand-wave. If I write “the tool is useful,” it pushes back: useful how? Compared to what? That back-and-forth is where most of the thinking actually happens.

Once the ideas are more developed, AI helps me organize the mess into a structure. What’s the opening? What order do the sections go in? What doesn’t belong?

Then comes a thorough pass: rewriting, cutting, adjusting tone, adding and removing sections.

Why use AI at all

Because without it, most of this wouldn’t exist. The cognitive cost of turning scattered thoughts into readable prose is high enough that I’d skip writing entirely. AI doesn’t improve my thinking — it lowers the cost of externalising it. That was the only reason I needed.