A Self-Evident Essay Arguing for the Use of AI in Writing
A Self-Evident Essay Arguing for the Use of AI This little project is meant to argue for the use of AI, and to demonstrate the use of AI in the process of forming the argument itself. It is best to inspect the commit differences with the --word-diff flag. Draft The draft was written quickly, after thinking about the issue for one evening.
- ▪A Self-Evident Essay Arguing for the Use of AI This little project is meant to argue for the use of AI, and to demonstrate the use of AI in the process of forming the argument itself.
- ▪It is best to inspect the commit differences with the --word-diff flag.
- ▪Draft The draft was written quickly, after thinking about the issue for one evening.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,950 of its stories.
Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/Sheer-Economics/the-sins-of-AI-writing |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:28:56 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-22T10:48:51.315Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-22T10:48:51.315Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -fxPCIWYepRn · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
A Self-Evident Essay Arguing for the Use of AI This little project is meant to argue for the use of AI, and to demonstrate the use of AI in the process of forming the argument itself. It is best to inspect the commit differences with the --word-diff flag. Draft The draft was written quickly, after thinking about the issue for one evening. Prepare the environment After the draft, I needed a plugin for the Vim editor to hook into Claude Code. None existed off-the-shelf, so I talked to Claude and settled on using tpope/vim-dispatch with some Claude-generated Vim functions. Grammar Fix It was done paragraph by paragraph. The process was slow because I wouldn't let go of the opportunity to learn from fixing those grammar errors.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.