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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I wrote my previous blog - parenting post with AI assistance. I’ve been using AI for coding, preparing bids and presentations for a while which is what led me down the chain of logic in the post. This is first time since University (where I studied Mathematics & Philosophy) I’ve tried to write an argued philosophical argument, so I tried using AI to help.\n\nMy observations\n\n  * It was very helpful refining the argument and being a sounding board\n    * I wrote the article originally as bullets\n    * Using the AI we jointly refined the logical flow\n    * It provided critique and help me hone the flow and focus on the key points\n  * It was less helpful writing the text, I tried\n    * Having it create a style guide from my other blog posts - so it uses my style (a trick that works for presentations)\n    * Allowing it to write the longer article from the bullets\n    * However it wrote a very verbose, academic article - that really was a long way from something I’d write (or enjoy reading)\n  * I ended up having to repeatidly tell it to correct items, and improve the style guide. This did work - but it was a painful process.\n\n\n\nReflecting on this - the AI is training on philosophical arguments from books, and when it saw one it wrote in that style despite my instructions. It took a lot of prompting to guide it back to what I wanted. I think I got most value when working with the bullets, refining the argument, wheras writing the full prose was just too wordy.",
  "title": "Writing with AI"
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