Writing Without AI Is the Point

June 08, 2025 · By Josh

Oh look, another shitty GPT wrapper.

They are everywhere. Everyone is shoehorning AI into their programs. What’s next, AI toilets? They already have those. AI toothbrush? So, 2024. It’s everywhere.

Your writing tools are not immune. As I edit this in Word, the Copilot icon drifts next to the line. Chasing me down the page just begging me to let it finish my thoughts for me.

We are letting these bots atrophy our minds.

I will admit that I am a heavy user of AI. I use ChatGPT for work and ChatGPT and Claude for personal projects. But writing is different. Writing is an action that is almost religious. It’s a practice. You wouldn’t ask an AI to run a mile for you so that you could get in shape?

Learning to write is a process of putting in the reps. Letting AI creep into every corner of our lives—and especially into the artistic sides of life—will leave us in a world void of humanity, guided by sophisticated algorithms, consuming what they tell us and never asking why.

Some tools should stay human.

TypeSlate is one of those tools. Built for un-augmented humanity.

Writers Are Pushing Back

I am not hostile to AI. AI helped me create this program. AI helped me create this website. AI even helped me brainstorm some of the thoughts to write this blog post.

In the end, I deleted everything it wrote and wrote what I wanted to. Because that's what writing should be. Messy, imperfect, human.

If you've spent any time in writers' circles on Reddit you will see open hostility to AI in every aspect of the writing business. You will also see AI champions mostly using it to try and get rich quick .

I am on the fence.

I understand that artists should get paid, but I am broke and creating images with ChatGPT is quick and easy. I've used Canva to create them from templates, but Canva is heavily influenced by AI so there is no perfect fix.

What I can say is this program is the opposite of AI. You can't use AI with it. You open it and write. That is it. Its simplicity is what makes it valuable.

Try it free for 30 days.

TypeSlate Was Built to Be the Opposite

TypeSlate doesn’t suggest your next word. It doesn’t analyze your tone. It doesn’t sync your work to a server, or quietly train a model on your story. Cough Cough Typeshare ...

Instead, it offers:

• A distraction-free, fullscreen mode that locks you in until you hit your goal
• No cloud, no account, no telemetry
• No copy-paste, so you can’t cheat your own goals
• Offline writing stats, just for your own growth

Where most tools chase AI and automation, TypeSlate chases focus and authenticity. It’s not a writing assistant—it’s a writing environment.

Writing Without AI Is the Point

There’s something radical about doing the work yourself. TypeSlate lets you own every word.

That’s not anti-AI. It’s pro-human.