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> Nowadays my writing (and maybe all of ours)

No. Don't pretend your taking shortcuts is less questionable because everyone else is doing it too. We're not. Own it yourself, don't get me involved.

> I am able to be so much more effective by sheer volume of words

If you think value comes from volume of words you really need to understand writing better.

[bluepeter]

Ok, but 3 generations ago, shorthand was a core skill that any competent professional could read and extract MORE value from than laboriously typeset prose. Something similar is probably happening now with prompt-ese and human-to-human (vs just AI) writing.