I feel like LLMs are just forcing me to realize what writing actually is. For me, writing is basically a mental cache clear. I write things down so I can process them fully and then safely forget them.

If I let an LLM generate the text, that cognitive resolution never happens. I can't offload a thought i haven't actually formed - hence am troubld to safely forget about it.

Using AI for that is like hiring someone to lift weights for you and expecting to get stronger (I remember Slavoj Žižek equating it to a mechanical lovemaking in his recent talk somewhere).

The real trap isn't that we/writers willbe replaced; it's that we'll read the eloquent output of a model and quietly trick ourselves into believing we possess the deep comprehension it just spit out.

It reminds me of the shift from painting to photography. We thought the point of painting was to perfectly replicate reality, right up until the camera automated it. That stripped away the illusion and revealed what the art was actually for.

If the goal is just to pump out boilerplate, sure, let AIdo it. But if the goal is to figure out what I actually think, I still have to do the tedious, frustrating work of writing it out myself .