I have been working with Google’s Antigravity code development tool recently. And while that seems like a strange thing to open with for a writing blog, here is why I think it might matter to us:

Antigravity is a development environment for coding that has AI built in so that instead of writing all of the lines of code yourself, you can “vibe code” which is basically talking with the program in plain language and telling it what you want.

While “programming” with Antigravity I found that the more detailed and deliberate I was with my description, the better the results. This made me realize that our talents as fiction writers will be very useful when working with AI now and in the future.

AI can do a lot of very amazing (and scary) things but it needs us to be able to describe in detail what it is that we want it to do.  The better we are at that, the more useful we will be when working with AI, which I suspect will be a very desirable skill in the near future.

As I try to follow the rapidly changing landscape of AI, I find this a refreshing thought that gives me a glimmer of hope.

At least for now…

Let me know what you think.

-James