Apologies for not replying sooner. I can't give you a ballpark figure, partly because I'm too lazy to go and check. But I've been writing since ... well, forever. Both personally and professionally. Do that regularly, and even in small amounts, and the number of words and pages and files adds up.
In case you don't receive an answer, an alternative to whatever they might have said or not have said, is stupidly simple: Just force yourself to write. Sit down. Lay down, stand on your head. Just do what ever you need to do to force yourself to write. Small personal essays are my suggestion. And a tip: never pause to edit -- just keep writing until you tire, and only then, if you must, go back and scrutinize yourself.
What I was asking was for anyone, prolific at writing or or not, to understand their own output in relation to…L1 cache or a context window.
But thanks! I guess my issue with writing, as a complete amateur, is the later stages, and followup, compiling or reviewing. Reading is not the only reason to write, but it is an important one.
I think it is a relevant human-scale question, relating to and understanding a paltry personal megabyte (or less) on a forum where gigabyte models are half the conversation. Its the wrong metric in a way like LoC, to compare to your comment.
If I am understanding correctly, you are also putting into perspective the dizzying contrast of human vs LLM, where the mere context window far exceeds an average lifetime of writing, which if so, yeah, ... interesting times. Before they ruined Claude with 4.7 and 5, I had more than a few extensive, hundred-page discussions which still kind of blow my mind in review. I miss it as I do some old departed friends. It would get quite amnesiac toward the ends, but still beat the hell out of many conversations I've had with PhDs.
On that note, my generated content, or product of my LLM interactions, exceeds 6GB, probably a lot more. Of course, on average, the LLM is producing far more output. But that's ~ two years of heavy, mostly research-based dialog, much of it adversarial, probing the frontier systems themselves.
Exactly right—interesting times. I’m curious whether you could estimate what percentage of the 6Gb sessions were your own writing? Of course you guide the ideas, but this word count is a different question from “how many words have you read?” (or generated, or conpiled from source :)