Framework: deciding when AI actually helps your writing

Schneier's decision tool separates useful AI writing assistance from harmful dependency patterns.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Wed, Aug 5 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 30/100 (Storm warning).

Coral Wire selects stories by a Claude-graded relevance score and writes each headline and one-line summary with an Anthropic Claude model from the linked source. Story gathering is not AI: it is a fixed set of feeds and dockets. The linked original is always the authority.

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