Writing

Superficial Writing Details Can Be Overcome

This should pass with some of the models ahead, which will be better trained — so the buzz around AI that writes superficially, text that's demotivating because it feels like AI trash, a wonder of words with no depth, will pass in some time, maybe days. But whoever went through AI's first phases saw this happen up close.

We study the nuances of how AI writes and whether its output truly works for literature. One of the clearest problems is atmospheric superficiality: a slow, vague quality that can make writing feel less deep than it should. This is one of the hardest challenges AI tools are beginning to overcome, and our chat was designed around that awareness. We track model releases, writing behavior, and the evolution of AI tools so the platform can keep moving toward richer, less superficial literary output.

The first times we write with AI, we notice it's superficial — but with the cards, the ready-made system and the method, it delivers what we need to work around that superficiality, which is a flaw of AI's own writing: its typical lack of originality becomes the critical point where we take hold of its strengths and improve on what made it weak. But we also want it to push itself and overcome that superficiality, which is why we created our 31 cards — they walk writers through phases that need to keep filling the text with more and more content.

After using the cards, the human and the AI can refine the content together — the same way I did with my own books.

An AI never does the work alone — building a book needs human intervention, and that's one of the points we stand behind. If the AI were meant to write alone, it would be better off writing straight into the data centers that run the models, turning out an industrialized book that belongs to the company in question. But if you're the one writing a book, you should feel it. You should live it — the AI helps you write, and you help the AI keep going.

The first chapter I wrote went through 31 different versions, all made by me on top of what the AI handed me — it took a month or more, refining what the AI had delivered. Even with me building some pieces that grow the text on their own, that wasn't the AI's moment to act — it was a human's moment to act. Still, that doesn't mean the AI didn't help write the chapter too; along the way it stepped in with new support and assistance. We wrote together from start to finish! But a large part of the heavy content was made sometimes by it, sometimes by me — we didn't hand the whole raw task over to the AI; it carries a large share of the work, and we carry the other.

We ourselves are building tools for the AI to eventually write everything, start to finish, completely on its own. For now, it still can't — and in the same way we need its help to give us direction on what to write, how to start or finish, or where to add weight, a heavy mass of paragraphs, and depth. Depth doesn't come only from AI — it also comes from humans. The humans who write with AI. Me and you.

We're waiting for the moment AI will write a complete book entirely on its own — but we also like to write, to be writers, and to write alongside AI, instead of letting it do everything by itself.

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