[ecshafer]

Lets steel man this:

1. If the output is solid, does it matter?

2. The author could simply have done the research, created the plan, and then gave an LLM the bullet list points of research and told it to "make this into a presentable plan". The author does the heavy work and actually does the creative work, and outsources the manual formatting to the LLM. My Wife speaks English as a second language, she much prefers telling an LLM what she is trying to say and to generate a business friendly email from this than writing it herself and letting in grammatical mistakes.

3. If I were to write a paper in my favorite text editor and then put it through pandoc to generate a word doc it would do the same thing.

[phyzome]

How can you tell the output is solid?

The creation of a plan also implies that some work has gone into making sure it's a good one. That's one human (the author) asserting that it's solid. But now you're not even sure if that one vote exists.