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Amanda Guinzburg
Personal blog · amandaguinzburg.substack.comwritingai
Amanda Guinzburg writes Everything Is A Wave, a personal blog at amandaguinzburg.substack.com about writing and ai. Since 2025, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not an Essay”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Words & Pictures. Shadows & Light. Click to read Everything Is A Wave, by Amanda Guinzburg, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not an Essay7 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2025-06-03
What Hacker News says?
Putting trust in an LLM is insanely dangerous. See this ChatGPT exchange for a stark example: https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
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on “LLMs should not replace therapists”Submitted Diabolus Ex Machina: This Is Not an Essay as a story · 12 points
HN discussionRespectfully, while I concur that there's a lot of influencer / life coach nonsense out there, I disagree that LLMs are the solution. Therapy isn't supposed to scale. It's the relationship that heals. A "relationship" with an LLM has an obvious, intrinsic, and fundamental problem. That's not to say there isn't any place at all for use of AI in the mental health space. But they are in no way able to replace a living,…
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on “LLMs should not replace therapists”Submitted Diabolus Ex Machina as a story · 7 points
HN discussionGreat link. It might be something I could share to wake some other people up. I dunno how tool use is setup in chat interface as I've only used the API, but I doubt there was ever a request to any of the urls and the author could have just as easily added https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/that-time-i-won-the-l... or any other made up URL and it would have waxed poetic about that one too.
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on “A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts”Submitted Diabolus Ex Machina as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere's a great example of an intelligent person learning this lesson (and, thankfully, sharing it in a very public and effective way): https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
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on “A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts”Submitted Diabolus Ex Machina as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAfter reading this article ^1 about another writer's extreme disillusionment with using AI for feedback, I don't know if I'll ever trust it for this kind of thing. [1] https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
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on “Claude finds contradictions in my thinking”Submitted A Writers frustrating experience with ChatGPT's approach to lying as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diabolus Ex Machina as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Diabolus ex Machina – ChatGPT as literary critic as a story · 1 points
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