Words Have Power

gist

Sigil argues that AI-generated documents create a loop in which one person expands a prompt and another compresses the result, leaving little human thought in between. Its proposed writing workspace retrieves and updates material across tools while marking whether each word came from a person or a machine. The product thesis is that AI should support authorship and context gathering without removing the productive friction of writing.

ideas

• Writing is part of knowledge work. Turning an idea into prose forces choices that disappear when a model writes the document from a short prompt.
• Automate context maintenance. Sigil proposes finding and refreshing relevant material while the author continues to do the writing.
• Keep provenance inline. Each word should retain a visible account of whether a person or machine produced it.
• Preserve useful friction. Effort can sharpen an argument, so speed is not the only measure of a writing tool.