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The Choice to Act

2025-09-01 · 4 min read · shipped

This one’s an ongoing struggle. It’s easy to let the AI just generate something polished — easy enough that you can rough up the surface afterward to make it look like a person wrote it. The harder thing is steering it the other way: getting it to build the scaffolding that gives me room to think out loud and get nudged forward. That’s the edge I keep tinkering on — using it to make something I’m actually proud of, not just something that passes.

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