My AI wrote a LinkedIn announcement that said too much and left too little room to read it\.

# Man and Machine: One Correction Should Change the Next Draft

![Man and Machine: One Correction Should Change the Next Draft](/writing/man-and-machine/one-correction-should-change-the-next-draft/assets/hero.jpg)

I saw the post, said it was too long and poorly spaced, and asked for a cleaner version\. We cut it to one central idea, opened the paragraphs, and put the link and signature on their own lines\. The shorter version was easier to scan and sounded more like something I would actually say\.

I then asked Oscar to carry that correction into the rest of my publishing system\. It turned the edit into a plain standard for the agents that draft and review my work: keep announcements short, preserve the blank lines, inspect the exact reader\-facing text, and do not confuse a finished draft with a clean post\.

That last part matters because an agent can count the words and still miss the page\. It can follow every rule and leave me with a wall of text\. The human job is to notice when the work feels crowded, unclear, or unlike the person whose name is on it\.

Once I make that judgement, the machine should remember it in a form the next draft can be checked against\. That is how a personal agent gets better without quietly taking ownership of my taste\. It carries the correction\. I still decide what good looks like\.

\-dg

\#ManAndMachine \#PersonalAI \#HumanJudgment

## Sources

- [Original LinkedIn post](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7512825197729738754/)