How to solve the AI writing problem

Why It Works

Ask AI to write like Shakespeare and it can, because it has read masses of him. To copy you it would need one of two things, masses of your writing for every kind of piece you want help with, or a detailed explanation of exactly how you write, down to where the colons and the ellipses go. Most people have neither, and nobody is simple enough to be written down as a list of rules, which is why asking it to write like you gets you the kind of post you hate seeing on LinkedIn. So stop asking one setup to sound exactly like you everywhere. Split what AI writes for you into two camps, the writing that only has to be good enough, which it can take off your plate, and the pieces with your name on them, where it gets you most of the way and you always take the last mile.

Step One, Set Up Both Camps

Here from the video? This is the prompt. It works your voice out from a few things you have actually sent rather than asking you to describe it, then asks what you write most and sorts each one into a camp. Camp one is emails, agendas, general correspondence and anything you might once have handed to a PA, and its skills draft the whole thing for you to read and send. Camp two is anything reputationally important or that you would call thought leadership, and its skills stop at a structured first draft. It finishes by drafting one real camp one piece, so you see it working today.

When it asks for things you have sent, give it real ones that went out, not the polished version you wish you had written, because a tidied up sample gets you a tidied up voice that still is not yours. Where the files go afterwards, in the Claude desktop app, a Project or ChatGPT, is on the folder that writes like you.

Step Two, Camp Two Starts From Your Braindump

For anything in camp two you do the thinking and it does the shaping. Talk it through in whatever order it comes out, and dictate rather than type if you can, because you want as much of the raw material in there as possible and you talk faster than you type. What comes back is a first draft in your voice with the lines it was least sure about marked, which is where you start the last mile.

Step Three, Let Your Edits Teach It

The first drafts will need changing in both camps, and that is not it failing, it is it not knowing you yet. Every edit you make is a piece of the explanation you could never have written up front, so once a piece has gone out, paste this. Keep it up for a few weeks and the edits get smaller, faster in camp one because there is so much more of it, and camp two creeps closer to the finish line as well.

One Honest Bit

It will not sound exactly like you, and I would not want it to. If AI could copy how you write perfectly from a few samples, so could anyone else with the same samples, and the level of originality in your own work is worth keeping yours. What this does is take the good enough writing off your plate and get you most of the way on the rest, and the first couple of weeks you will still be editing a fair bit.

It also makes the writing sound like you, it does not make it right. The facts, the claims and the numbers are still yours to check before anything goes out with your name on it, same as work from anyone who started last week.

Where This Goes Next

If you want the camp one emails written every evening without asking, your inbox already has the replies written is the routine that does it, with the same edit loop built in. The folder that writes like you goes deeper on the brief, the context and the skills, and shows mine.

And if the idea of an agent is still fuzzy, an AI agent is a chat with a job is the plain English version and the start of the series.