The Cognitive Revolution · Thursday, October 1, 2026
Joel Borgen, an author who collaborates with AI, notes that current models, even when given specific instructions, often produce unreadable prose. He stresses the necessity of human authors to 'scaffold' the AI's output and perform rigorous editing to ensure quality and coherence.
“The models are good at certain things. They're getting better at everything. But as far as just prose writing itself, even if you tell it exactly what you want and you have a plan for a chapter, you often get something that's unreadable.”
“unless you know how to scaffold it and then edit it yourself.”
“So the book is definitely a lot better for having done it alongside the AI. But I'm cognizant of the fact that AI writing will be controversial for a lot of readers to engage with it.”