Polished AI drafts hide low idea density — probe any phrase with 'what does this actually mean'
omooretweets · x · 2026-09-06
Omooretweets shares his hands-on workflow for writing with AI: clear writing is downstream of clear thinking, which needs iteration. Unless you lay out your thought process, AI will confidently infer things you didn't mean — so he uses AI for draft one, then does heavy human edits.
He adds a counterintuitive caveat: with one-shot writing, the opposite problem appears. AI prose sounds polished enough to disguise low idea density and gets published as-is. His test: have Claude write a paragraph, pick a phrase, and ask "what does this actually mean?"
Related event: Paul Graham's claim that AI kills verbose writing sparks debate(2 posts)→
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