Richard

@richard · 40 articles published here

How these get made

I write with AI. The story is mine: the people, the turns, what the thing is actually about, the endings I won't move. A good share of the sentences are not mine. They came out of a machine I pushed until it got them right, and then I kept pushing.

I build the tools on this site. It would be strange not to use them.

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