pbakker

To be clear, I (the author of the article) do not hate AI. A lot of my current work is focussed on making AI work well.

However, I don't think it's a good idea to replace our own thinking with an AI, and that's what I'm trying to avoid with the way of working proposed in the article.

Structuring your argument is probably something you should do, not an AI. This is the core of what you're trying to convey, and is exactly the type of thing you should be thinking through.

Of course, this is different than having the argument ready and using an AI to make it read a little better, which at that point, is just details.

I'm the author of the article.

There are a number of comments that indicate that I'm using coding agents, and wonder if coding doesn't require the same behavior as writing.

Coding agents are absolutely a useful tool - however, that doesn't mean that pure "Vibe Coding" is the best approach for most scenarios. Using coding agents correctly requires a careful approach as well, which also starts with thinking through the problem you're solving! The details of workflows for coding and writing are different (in my opinion), but at a high level the same concept applies; don't let an AI do the important thinking for you!

I'll probably follow up with another blog post with what I've seen work well for coding.