If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI
And if it’s read by a human, it should also be written by a human. Nothing worse than having to read through a stack of elaborated text that has been generated on a small prompt. That’s what Naval asked Garry Tan, and they didn’t have an answer.
- ▪And if it’s read by a human, it should also be written by a human.
- ▪Nothing worse than having to read through a stack of elaborated text that has been generated on a small prompt.
- ▪That’s what Naval asked Garry Tan, and they didn’t have an answer.
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| Original publisher | Simon Späti's Second Brain |
| Canonical URL | https://www.ssp.sh/brain/ai-writing/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:09:45 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-22T15:13:50.990Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-22T15:13:50.990Z |
| 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 | 0M-KbJwGPMYn · 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 |
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| 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 |
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Writing with AI: What's the Best Approach? Last updatedUpdated: Sep 22, 2026 by Simon Späti · CreatedCreated: Feb 14, 2023 · 6 min read recently updated Recent changes Sep 22today +113 / −1 words Sep 82 weeks ago +17 / −75 words Aug 214 weeks ago +25 / −4 words Aug 66 weeks ago +15 / −0 words Aug 47 weeks ago +6 / −0 words Jul 288 weeks ago +275 / −4 words Jul 202 months ago +79 / −9 words Jul 63 months ago +11 / −16 words Jul 33 months ago published · 808 words (function () { var nc = document.querySelector('.note-changes'); if (!nc) return; function close() { nc.classList.remove('nc-open'); nc.blur(); } nc.addEventListener('click', function (e) { if (e.target.closest('.nc-popover')) return; nc.classList.toggle('nc-open'); if (!nc.classList.contains('nc-open')) nc.blur(); });…
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