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by nnf 600 days ago
If we're talking about handwritten letters or even typewritten, one would have to have a plan for what they wanted to say and then execute their writing linearly from beginning to end, whereas now we can edit and poke and prod and reword with almost no effort.
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If I had more time I would have written you a shorter letter.
“ChatGPT, please summarize this tirade I wrote in less than 500 words”
Pretty sure they used drafts for that, at least until learning to do it on the fly.