How AI Helps Me Write Texts for formspace.design While Staying Myself

Artificial intelligence today is not just a buzzword, but a powerful tool that has deeply integrated into my work on formspace.design. But for me, AI is not a replacement, but a co-author who helps me scale my expertise and convey my thoughts more clearly, without losing my individuality.

My Journey to Texts: From Drafts to AI Assistant

When creating formspace.design, I faced the need to regularly share my experience, vision, and practical advice. My background in landscape design, business consulting, and teaching gave me a vast amount of knowledge, but translating it into coherent and interesting articles was always a challenge. Previously, writing one in-depth article of 3000-5000 characters could take a whole day, or even more, taking precious time away from product development. I felt that my thoughts were not always expressed as clearly and structured as I would have liked.

How AI Became My Co-Author

Initially, like many, I approached AI with a certain skepticism, fearing that it would make texts soulless and generic. However, after starting to experiment, I quickly realized that the key is not to ask AI to "write an article," but to use it as an effective assistant. I give AI my raw ideas, outlines, and key theses, and it helps to structure, expand, and polish them. It's like having a very fast and attentive editor at hand who never gets tired and is always ready to suggest wording options. It has become an indispensable tool, allowing me to maintain my voice while significantly speeding up the content creation process for formspace.design.

Preserving My Voice: Principles of Working with AI

My main task when working with AI is to maintain authenticity. I never allow AI to fully generate text without my active participation. My process is built on several principles:

1. Personal Contribution: Always start with my own thoughts, experience, and specific examples. This is the foundation that AI cannot create.
2. Dialogue: I ask AI specific questions, ask it to refine certain paragraphs, change the tone, or suggest alternative formulations. This is not a monologue, but an interactive interaction.
3. Iterations: It's rare for AI's first response to be perfect. I go through several cycles of editing, refinement, and repeated requests to achieve the desired result.
4. Final Control: The final say is always mine. I reread each text to ensure it sounds like me, that it contains those "highlights" and details that only my personal experience can bring.

Rough Drafts and AI Polishing

My workflow with AI looks something like this:

1. Idea and Structure: I start with a clear idea and an outline of the article's main structure. This might be a list of 5-7 key points and theses I want to elaborate on. For example, for this article, I first decided to talk about my journey, principles of working with AI, and pros and cons.
2. First Draft: Then I write a very raw, often incoherent draft. This might be 1000-1500 characters, just a brain dump, a kind of "brainstorm on paper." I don't worry about style or grammar at this stage.
3. AI Prompt: After that, I formulate a specific request for the AI. For example: "Expand this text, make it more coherent and informative, maintain my personal, expert tone, add practical examples, but do not change the meaning and main structure. Increase it to 3500-4000 characters." Sometimes I ask to pay special attention to specific aspects, for example, to explain why it's important to do something, not just how.
4. Revision and Refinement: I carefully reread the text received from the AI, edit it, add my specific details that the AI couldn't know. These might be specific figures, personal stories, unique observations from my 20 years of practice in landscape design, or experience as a director at "Dom i Sad" company. This is the "polishing" that makes the text sound like me. For example, instead of the general phrase "saves time," I might add "reduces the time to create a site concept from 3-4 days to a few hours."
5. Uniqueness Check: I don't just accept the text; I carefully check that it reflects my unique knowledge and experience, and is not a generic article that anyone could write. This ensures that formspace.design content is always valuable and original.

Advantages of This Approach for formspace.design

Using AI in my workflow allows me to create significantly more quality content than before. This means I can share my expertise more often, talk about the intricacies of landscape design and planning, and explain how formspace.design can help our users. My goal is not just to inform, but to inspire, and to show that creating a beautiful and functional plot is accessible to everyone. This approach directly supports the philosophy of formspace.design: to give plot owners the tools to realize their ideas, to enhance their creative potential.

Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Working with AI, I have identified several common mistakes to avoid:

• Full Delegation: The biggest mistake is to think that AI will write "for me." It can write "for me," but only if I give it the right and detailed input. Without my control, the text quickly loses its personal tone and uniqueness.
• Loss of Facts and Specifics: AI can "hallucinate" or operate with general phrases. All numbers, names, specific terms, as well as concrete examples (e.g., plot size of 10 acres or path width of 1.2 meters) must be carefully checked and added manually. I always strive to include at least 4-5 specific details in each article to make it as useful as possible.
• Impersonal Tone: Without constant control and active editing, the text becomes impersonal, dry, and boring. My task is to actively intervene to preserve my style, humor (if appropriate), and expert confidence. Otherwise, it will just be a set of words, not an article by the founder of formspace.design.
• Lack of Purpose: Before giving a task to AI, always clearly formulate the article's goal. What do I want the reader to learn? What action should they take? Without this, AI will simply generate unfocused text.

Balance Between Speed and Quality

Before the advent of AI, creating an in-depth article of 3500-5000 characters could take me up to 8-10 hours of pure time. With AI, this process has been reduced to 3-4 hours, including drafting, working with AI, and final editing. This means I can release content 2-3 times more often, without sacrificing quality, but rather improving it through deeper elaboration of ideas. This acceleration allows me not only to dedicate more time to the development of formspace.design but also to constantly maintain the blog with relevant and useful materials, as, for example, in the article about what AI in formspace.design can do now and what's in development.

How This Approach Is Reflected in formspace.design

My experience using AI in content creation directly echoes the philosophy of formspace.design. We do not aim to replace humans, but to give them a powerful tool that enhances their creativity and efficiency. In our service, whether it's module 1.x for planning zones and objects or 2.1 for generating AI concepts, the AI's task is not to impose a ready-made solution, but to offer starting points, options that the user can refine, adapt to their needs and taste. It's like the draft I get from AI for an article, but in landscape design.

Imagine a scenario: you upload a photo of your plot to module 3.1 "Design by Photo" or simply outline the plot boundaries in 1.0 "Plot Plan." AI analyzes the initial data, terrain, existing elements, and suggests several options for zoning or arranging key objects. For example, it might suggest placing a 20 m² recreation area in the southwest part of the plot, and a fruit orchard near the northern boundary, considering lighting. You don't get a final project, but a rich set of ideas that you then refine, move, change plants, add your unique details. This significantly speeds up project initiation and helps overcome the "fear of the blank slate," allowing you to focus on creative refinement rather than routine, which is one of the most expensive lessons I learned in my practice, as I wrote earlier in the article the most expensive lesson: an unfinished automation project in a landscape company.

FAQ

Aren't you afraid that AI will make your text impersonal?

No, because I always remain the final editor and the author of the concept. AI is a tool that helps me express my thoughts more clearly and structured, but it doesn't generate them from scratch. I carefully check every paragraph to preserve my style and unique intonations that reflect my many years of experience.

Can I fully entrust article writing to AI?

I would not recommend such an approach for content requiring personal experience and expertise. Full delegation will lead to a loss of individuality, superficiality, and possible factual errors. AI excels at routine tasks and expanding ideas, but not at conveying the unique vision of the founder of formspace.design.

How to distinguish AI-written text from human-written text?

A well-edited text created with the help of AI is practically indistinguishable from purely human text if the author actively participated in the process. The key is for AI to help improve human text, not create it in a vacuum. My articles always contain personal examples, specific details, and reflections that AI cannot invent on its own.

Does it really save time?

Yes, significantly. For example, an initial draft of an article that used to take 3-4 hours can now be obtained in 30-60 minutes if I clearly formulated the task and provided my initial thoughts. This time is freed up for deeper analytics, working on the formspace.design product, or for creativity, such as painting.

What volume of text do you usually write yourself, and what does AI refine?

I always start with my own outline, which can be from 500 to 1500 characters of key ideas and theses. Then AI helps expand this text to 3000-5000 characters, adding connecting elements, more complete descriptions, and examples. But the final stage is always my personal editing, where I add the "highlight," check accuracy, and ensure consistency with my style.

Is this applicable only to texts or to other types of content?

The principle of "AI as an assistant" is universal. I use it not only for texts but also for structuring ideas, creating presentations, even for help in coding formspace.design. This is the same approach I apply when teaching young architects to use Revit and 3ds Max in conjunction with AI for more effective design.

How do you feel about the ethical issues of using AI in content?

Ethics are very important. I am always transparent that I use AI as a tool to increase efficiency. My goal is not to deceive the reader, but to convey my expertise and experience more qualitatively and regularly. The main thing is not to pass off fully generated content as your own, but to use AI as an amplifier of human intelligence and creative potential.

Conclusion

For me, AI has become not just a technology, but a reliable partner who helps me overcome routine and focus on the main thing – creating a valuable formspace.design product and sharing my experience. This allows me to remain myself, preserve my unique voice, and at the same time be more productive. I believe that this approach to human-AI collaboration is the future, where technology enhances our creativity, rather than suppresses it.

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