The Circle
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Editing and Improving What You Already Wrote

This is the most underrated use of AI. Everyone wants it to write for them. The bigger win is using it to edit with you — so the words on the page stay yours, just better.

The trap in the other direction: you paste your paragraph in, ask for "improvement," and AI hands back something smoother, blander, and not in your voice. You accept it because it sounds professional. Three months later all your writing sounds identical to everyone else's. We're going to avoid that.

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