AI Lab Insiders Insist on Writing Themselves: 'Writing Is Thinking' and Outsourcing It Kills Your Thinking
rseroter · x · 2026-10-13
Gergely Orosz observes that the most "AI-pilled" people at AI labs still do all their own writing — precisely so they don't stop thinking — while less AI-immersed people who outsource writing visibly do.
Quoted engineer poteto explains he never lets agents write for him (docs, tweets, even prompts): writing is thinking, a skill he refuses to give up, and he suspects it also makes him better at prompting — clearly articulating intent and vocabulary is what makes directing agents effective.
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