Writing

Essays by Jason Prunty on AI, writing, and design.

Essays here are published in full. The longer archive, including paid pieces, lives on Designing Intelligence on Substack.

Essays

02 entries
  1. 02Essay / Decision-Making and AIThe OODA Loop’s Founding Story Doesn’t Hold Up (and Boyd Knew It)Every explanation of the OODA loop opens with the same number. The number is wrong. What Boyd built after he stopped leaning on it is the part worth learning.7 min read
  2. 01Essay / AI and WritingWhy AI Writes in Em Dashes (and Why I Banned Them)The em dash is the most famous sign of AI writing. It is also the least interesting one. Every tell I banned turned out to mark a decision nobody made.6 min read