I built an ai writing tool to be bad at helping

Every AI writing tool wants to help. It finishes your sentence the way it thinks you meant it, smooths the draft, makes it read like everyone else’s draft. I got tired of that and built one that does the opposite.

It’s called slow-burn, real name the Exquisite Corpse Machine, after the parlor game where you pass a folded paper around and each person only sees the last line. You drop in a sentence. Claude picks up from it. Then you pick up from Claude’s version, except you only see the last few lines, never your own original. Loop it, watch it drift into something none of you would have written.

Not an assistant. The README calls it a mutation engine. The whole value is that it refuses to help. It won’t hold your thread, won’t protect what you meant, hands you back something slightly wrong and asks you to make it wronger.

Most of what I build is about control: my own copy of everything, local and predictable. This is the one where I gave the control away on purpose, and it’s the one I like best.