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I’ve spent more than enough time writing with LLMs.

“Encountering” is actually a very apt description of the “ah-ha moments” of AI assisted writing, so that was the wrong word for the point I was making.

The joy of traditional writing is that those “ah-ha moments” come from somewhere in you. And I’m not arguing that is preferable out of some sort of anti-AI moralism. Rather, the epiphanies of traditional writing are better because they are informed by your singular experience, the life you have lived, the connections you have made, and all you have gathered along the way. I’m saying that it’s a great disservice not only to a given piece of writing, but to writing as a whole, when those influences are not present to guide the first drafts of the world. Follow the branching paths of your own inspiration to the conclusion, then let the machine take a pass at it. To give it the first crack is to rob your work of the stuff that makes it uniquely yours, and to rob yourself of the experience of invention.