Thinking With AI
Stay in the construction of anything you will have to know, judge, defend, or teach later. Automate retrieval, formatting, routing, calculation, and execution.
Thinking order: when the model enters the work changes what the writer keeps.
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Think first
Establish your objective, context, and position before the model speaks.
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Hypothesize with AI
Use the model to expand a view you already hold.
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Iterate together
The first response is a draft. Push it against your position.
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Navigate objections
The model argues the other side. You weigh what survives.
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Keep ownership
The work ships with your name on it. You stay the author.
Free: this page and the cognitive independence assessment. Paid: the 30-day program, $97 once.
Kosmyna et al., MIT Media Lab preprint, arXiv 2506.08872. Essay-writing task, n=54. Writers who started with the model had weaker recall and ownership of the text they had just produced. Preprint. Small sample. A signal for thinking order.