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01Versioning documents that keep changing: git snapshots, the Darwin variorum, scholarly version rules, and the reasons only an author can recordSoftware can store every state of a changing document and work out the differences whenever asked. It cannot recover why a change was made or where a moved passage came from, and once an AI drafts the edits, that reason is the author's share of the work.ArticleAI-directed development57 quotes · 3 sources · 16 min19 Oct
02Language models and idea diversity: homogenisation within a session, across users, and between companiesAsk a language model for something new and it pulls toward what everyone else would say — across companies, over long sessions, and across everyone using it. Real novelty has a shape the models do not reach for on their own.ArticleAI-directed development39 quotes · 1 source · 7 min10 Oct
03Unverified hunches in AI-assisted software work: the certainty handoff and one-sided memoryA hunch that feels right gets handed to a collaborator as if it had been checked. When the collaborator is an AI that starts every session blank, nobody checks it at all.ArticleAI-directed development49 quotes · 2 sources · 10 min9 Oct