On AI-enhanced Writing

Pablo Enoc critiques AI-enhanced writing workflows, arguing that rearranging words and structure is the core of thinking itself, not mere formatting. He contends that critical evaluation and aesthetic judgment require human cognitive and poetic faculties that LLMs cannot replicate, and that outsourcing these steps means editing AI interpretation rather than your own thought.

Teaching:
• Rearranging the sequence in practice is where understanding lives—moving from navasana to baddha konasana to supta konasana isn't arbitrary formatting, it's the method revealing the idea
• Cueing adjustments in real time is like Didion's sentence structure: the picture in the student's body dictates the arrangement of breath and bandha, and that arrangement tells you what's happening
• Students who film practice and ask AI for feedback miss the human poetic sensibility—only another practitioner can see when a dying-fall vinyasa or a hard-ending jump-back serves the larger arc
• Class themes around sequencing as thinking: the order of asanas is not decoration, it's how the practice thinks through you

Writing seeds:
• Essay: 'The Arrangement Tells You'—why the order of postures in Primary Series is not a script to optimize but a sentence structure that reveals meaning through doing
• Shala Daily post: Didion's 'the picture tells you' applied to adjustment—how the shape in the student's body dictates your hands, not your idea of the pose
• Post: 'Can Asanas Be Invented?'—riffing on Frida's invented verbs, exploring when students create hybrid shapes and whether that's innovation or misunderstanding
• Essay: 'Editing the AI's Interpretation'—what gets lost when students use apps to track progress instead of felt sense and teacher feedback

Idea map:
• Systems literacy: rearranging elements is not cosmetic, it's how systems think—true for sentences, true for vinyasa sequences, true for attention in practice
• Embodiment: the body's arrangement of breath, bandha, drishti is the thinking, not the report afterward; you don't tell the practice what it means, it tells you
• Attention as method: critical evaluation in writing requires human poetic faculties, just as discernment in practice requires felt proprioceptive judgment no app can replicate
• Practice as systems literacy: the order of asanas is grammatical—shifting structure alters meaning, and only direct experience reveals whether the arrangement serves the picture in your nervous system

Source: https://enocc.com/2026/04/09/on-ai-enhanced-writing.html