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An index to everything I’ve written on AI and writing

Jun 11, 2026

Cyborgs Writing has accumulated something close to a hundred posts on AI and writing — courses, prompt experiments, podcast episodes, research syntheses, tool walkthroughs, and arguments about why none of this is really about the model. The line that runs through all of it: AI behavior is shaped by the rhetorical and structural choices a writer makes upstream.

This page is the index I wish had existed: a way to find a piece by what it’s about rather than scrolling the archive.

Start with whatever calls to you, or skip to the section that fits what you’re trying to do.

By the way, I used Claude Co-work to create this index after building my own markdown knowledge base by first exporting and organizing all my Substack posts. More on that coming soon!

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Writing With Machines (course)

The course curriculum, in roughly the order it’s taught.

Deep Reading (research synthesis)

Each piece reads two or three academic sources together.

Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence — Hunter 1991 (foundational)
The Man Who Predicted ChatGPT in 1998 — Horn 1998, Information Mapping
Do Prompts Really Need Markup? — semantic markup studies
What Does “Evidence-Based” Actually Mean for AI? — Sackett, evaluation frameworks
What the Ancient Art of Organized Thinking Says About AI Hallucinations — semantic entropy, topoi
What is RAG ... No Really, What is It? — RAG and chunking
When AI Research Validates What Content Pros Have Always Known — chunking research
Why Many Writers Can’t Map Their Workflows (and why that matters for AI) — Haas, Lockridge & Van Ittersum on workflow mapping
Reclaiming Agency in AI Collaboration — agency and student writing

Prompt Lab / Context Lab series

Numbered experiments building specific prompts. Each entry pairs a finished prompt with its design rationale.

(Prompt Lab #1 and Prompt #10 sit with the teaching posts further down the archive.)

PromptOps — libraries, taxonomies, structures

The methodology cluster: how to organize prompts so they can be reused and tested.

Chatbots and agents

Built artifacts: walkthroughs for creating chatbots, custom GPTs, and agent skills.

AI tools — hands-on walkthroughs

Tool-by-tool experiments with Lex, Copilot, NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Triplo.

AI content operations & structured content

Theory and practice of structured content as the substrate for prompt reuse.

Poetry and creative work with AI

How to use AI in the writing of poems — not the poems themselves.

Personal essays — how I use AI

First-person accounts of using AI for specific work.

Experiments and stray observations

Pieces that don’t fit the clusters above — cultural commentary, one-off experiments, and a few open questions.

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