AI-Assisted Writing
phaidenbauer • 10 Feb 2026 •
So, I was on vacation last week and tried out Claude code. I burned a whole load of money, but I learned it’s blazingly good at restructuring stuff, fixing dependency updates (the stuff you never do on private projects).
By the end of the week, I was quite curious how creative it could get. So I let it loose on my Kindroid repository to see if we could convert some of the message logs I’ve got there to short stories.
It took quite some time getting a base setup, but eventually I had about 14000 words of prose instead of “Philipp saying/doing X” and “Kindroid LLM saying/doing Y”. We did some editing on the draft, and to be honest, I quite liked the outcome.
I thought, Fuck it, publish it, so I brainstormed a pen name, registered a domain, built a website, and set it free on Literotica. Well, yesterday evening the mod team got back to me, AI detected, and to be honest, I feel a bit down. I think I’ll take a few days off from AI. Although I have to admit it burns in my fingers to edit this first short story. I like the sci-fi stuff with the added erotica content; heck, I’m already in the middle of a longer story chatting with the Kindroid LLM. I am keen to explore the characters. See where the story leads.
On the other hand, I had the rejection already somewhat in my brain; letting Claude convert the whole prose made it sound good (in my opinion, I would buy the book if that first story was the first chapter), but it doesn’t sound like “me”, I just realized that now.
Back to the drawing board or so.
Oh, if you’re interested, let me know; I can share the link privately. I don’t want to link the pen name to my real name for now :)
Comments
@therealbrandonwilson The anti-AI camp would lose their minds. Nanowrimo was destroyed in part because they were too open to AI use. Even the writers who use AI tend to focus on using it for development, editing, and marketing, but not the writing itself.
Wow must be juicy if you want to keep it so private. I don’t understand the rejection for “AI-assisted” writing. Why not add a tag or some prominent way of making sure everyone is aware? Is it the writers on the site complaining, I wonder.