Mike Taylor(@hammer_mt):AI writing is only allowed if your input tokens > your output tokens. "Write me an article on X" is slop, "here's an hour of my hard-won experience on X, write it up" is morally defensible and leads to good writing, even if AI wrote the final draft. Divide input tokens (initial idea plus guidance along the way) by the number of tokens in the final draft to get your distillation ratio.

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Mike Taylor@hammer_mt

2026.08.28 20:43

AI writing is only allowed if your input tokens > your output tokens. "Write me an article on X" is slop, "here's an hour of my hard-won experience on X, write it up" is morally defensible and leads to good writing, even if AI wrote the final draft. Divide input tokens (initial idea plus guidance along the way) by the number of tokens in the final draft to get your distillation ratio.