Harry McCracken on Nostr: I vibe-coded my own word processor, and it feels like I write ~20% faster when I use ...
I vibe-coded my own word processor, and it feels like I write ~20% faster when I use it—even though the words all remain mine—just because it’s tuned for the work I do. Seems more and more obvious that AI’s place in journalism is not writing stuff, but helping journalists work more efficiently.
Published at
2026-04-06 17:13:09 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "3fe717ef3cb59ff6f9b33dea23bd9d2e27db3febb80d154b5b0c23ca5697486c",
"pubkey": "8ad450fae831607b81359ae0cb6d19e322277adfb08e6369b100594e29837d6c",
"created_at": 1775495589,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken/116358878961334760",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.social/users/harrymccracken/statuses/116358878961334760",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.social/users/harrymccracken/statuses/116358878961334760",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "I vibe-coded my own word processor, and it feels like I write ~20% faster when I use it—even though the words all remain mine—just because it’s tuned for the work I do. Seems more and more obvious that AI’s place in journalism is not writing stuff, but helping journalists work more efficiently.",
"sig": "b3ac93f315ab5b7514f26a487f9fc978696ab1297d2bb0c5944af584f6516a967d4d3b26fe51b22e693f7c696b282e3799d6f8ec110fc43441ecf66e49515e61"
}
