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A chat with Reid Westwood about document control
Reid Westwood described the document problem AI makes obvious: one decision can cross five files, while every review tool still treats the files separately.
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Prose does not belong in a cockpit
Every tool for reviewing what agents wrote looks like a control panel. Panels, queues, diffs, terminals. That is the right shape for code and the wrong shape for writing, and the difference is not decoration.
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The approve button wears out
Anthropic flipped Claude Code to auto-approve by default. The research behind that call is 80 years old, and every review tool should read it.
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Markdown won. The review layer didn't come with it.
You moved your docs to plain text so AI could work in them. Track changes, comments, the back-and-forth got left behind in Word.
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I paid 52 strangers to poke holes in Stet
A building-in-public look at what an early value-prop study told me. Half of them said the problem was theirs. The framing I was most invested in came last.
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Why your AI works better in plain text
If you moved your docs to markdown and the agent suddenly just gets it, that is not a coincidence. A short explainer on why plain text on git became the format AI work runs on.
