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A widely discussed essay makes a deliberately hard-line case: AI should almost never write anything substantive. The argument has clearly struck a nerve. It drew 79 points and 44 comments on Hacker News, with plenty of pushback alongside agreement. You can read the original essay here.

The useful business question isn’t whether AI can produce passable text. It often can. The question is what your writing is meant to do. If it’s a customer update, a board note, a position on a difficult issue, or a piece of thinking that represents your company, handing the whole job to a model can weaken the point. The words may sound polished while the judgment behind them is thin.

That doesn’t mean banning AI from the writing process. It means using it as a tool, not a ghostwriter. Ask it to organise rough notes, challenge your logic, suggest a clearer structure, turn a long draft into a short summary, or help create first-pass material your team will properly review. Keep the decisions, point of view, and final accountability with a person who knows the business.

This is the kind of thing we build into an AI command centre: clear guardrails around where AI assists, where people decide, and where it should stay out of the way.