For a long time I thought about keeping my writing in a git repository so that
it wouldn't suddenly disappear, and so that I could write using the tool I'm
most comfortable with (Emacs). But setting it all up didn't seem worth the time
and effort. Generative AI brought the time and effort down to where it was worth
it.
With generative AI, all I had to write myself was a README file. I put in a
heading, "How this repo came about", and laid out my thoughts about what I
wanted. Then I had a convers