2026-10-06 | Writing and AI boundary. Writing serves two different functions for Kiran: private writing is part of thinking and should preserve the struggle needed to form judgment; public writing is craft and may use stronger editorial assistance. A useful rule is retrieval or first judgment before AI, then use AI for research, critique, option generation, editing or drafting without outsourcing the accountable judgment-forming step. Linters are most useful as negative constraints that catch recurring defects; turning admired positive traits into hard rules risks freezing voice. Transcript-to-prose and other source-derived writing also need an explicit authorship/publishability boundary so preservation, transformation and original contribution are not confused.