Why and how

I'm starting this diary as a low stakes way to write more frequently about any topic. The goal is to write 500 words a few times a week on subjects spanning technology, philosophy, parenting or anything in between. I'll keep editing to a single pass proof-read and perhaps an AI pass as well – I have to keep up with the times. Speaking of AI, I've been experimenting with it in many ways. It's been an enormous help and force multiplier in my day-to-day job auto-completing snippets of code effectively and scaffolding tests that cover many of the edges cases I would have had to come up with. I've been using AI in such capacities since day one and at this point it's become a tool that would be hard to give up.
The more interesting use-cases I've found revolve around exploring ideas I don't have the labels for in domains I'm unfamiliar with ^[1]. For example, I've recounted the phenomenon of getting someone to get something done for you by trash-talking their domain of expertise. AI was quick to point out that I was alluding to the well-studied area of reactive psychology. That acted as trampoline for exploring my curiosity with greater efficiency.

I discovered that you'd never get an answer to a problem from Linux Gurus by asking. You have to troll in order for someone to help you with a Linux problem.
For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me.
Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better.
-http://bash.org/?152037

What I've found less useful, and even damaging, is using AI to slop. AI slopping, as far as I understand it, is the perverse use of AI to quickly generate content for others to consume. It's effectively a burden to the recipient of the content: An edited photo that lacks the human touch, or a piece of writing white-washed in an eerie way^[2]. I think I've come up with a good way to use AI to improve my writing in a fun and minimally intrusive way. I'll ask AI to score my writing on a literacy level, pick my best and worst sentences, and rewrite the worst one to be better.
Well, I just made it to 500 words thanks to a really beefy quote – let's see how far I'll be able to take this!

AI Literacy Grade Level: 11–12 (I'll take that as a win, I thought it would be closer to 6th grade)