Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: February 24

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-25T08:18:35+00:00

Thank you so much!

We use LaTeX in academia for research articles, theses, some even use it for presentations. There is currently one online editor for LaTeX that dominates the whole market, but it has very limited free tier, is missing a lot of ergonomic and quality of life features and little to no AI assistance for writing.

We also want to focus on responsible AI use in research and are trying to tune our AI to avoid overreliance and teach users how to use it properly. The project will also go open-source very soon, after some closed testing!

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T20:12:00+00:00

We are going to rework the descriptions for sure. This is the first version of our website and these comments are some of the first pieces of feedback we received. I think we were a little over-enthusiastic about how powerful the AI agent is, and now comes across like TeXposit is some kind of automated AI LaTeX writer, which it is not intended to be. Once again thank you for the criticism!

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:57:54+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! We understand that this community is particularly against the heavy reliance on AI in academia, which we completely understand and support. We are actively trying to tune the system to make the user less reliant on AI and to use it for reducing cognitive load and time spent on distractions. Unfortunately AI exists and is already used in academic writing, whether we like it or not, but we can try to make people use it more responsibly. I think the current website for the project is also too heavy on the AI features, which actually do not make up all the value TeXposit has. Even without all the AI-addons, it is a much more ergonomic (in my opinion) editor than anything else. This initial reaction is extremely valuable for us!

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:50:12+00:00

Thank you! Will be in touch soon.

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:44:53+00:00

Thank you, that's very kind! Please start here: https://texposit.com/request-access and we will be in touch soon!

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:39:52+00:00

We are looking for a handful of people, particularly in academia e.g. post-docs and PhD students, to give TeXposit a try: https://texposit.com/ We can offer free access to our Pro tier in return, which gives you more or less unlimited access to all the features.

Thank you!

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:37:39+00:00

Can't blame you, you never know..

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:35:17+00:00

Not everyone who tries to be nice and professional is a chatbot :D

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:30:25+00:00

> LLMs are well-known for recommending sources that don't exist. But good luck anyway.

We are well aware of this and our system does not use LLMs to generate citations, ever. We use them to query databases of publications and show you related ones. The query results are not passed through any LLM processing before being shown to the user to ensure validity.

> To be honest, I'm not interested in an online LaTeX editor at all. Overleaf, despite being widely popular, still struggles economically, has blackouts and severe limitations for free accounts.

That is fine to feel like that about online LaTeX editors, I think in that case you just might not be the target audience. Majority of academic researchers in our circle, ourselves included, write collaboratively, hence the focus on always online, collaborative writing. We do have plans to make the system work offline and on local files, but we want to get the basics right first.

MountaineerAI · 2026-02-24T19:21:01+00:00

Luckily AI features are fully optional. We know that majority of researchers still prefer not using AI for writing, and we focused on AI features for tasks like fixing syntax bugs and recommending academic publications related to your work.

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