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Is AI about craft not speed?
Often, AI-native writing is framed as prioritizing speed at the expense of rigor and craft. My own experience has been the opposite. With the grind of putting every single word after the other taken more or less off my plate, I have more mental bandwidth to think about the craft going into the piece, such as whether the introduction is compelling or the thesis is solid.
This has potential to be a driving theme of the current LLM-driven revolution. It’s not that the craft of writing will cease to exist because of AI. It’s the nature and process of writing that has changed. You spend less time typing at a keyboard. I imagine this has similar parallels to when people went from typewriters to word processors. You spend more time on the craft of communicating than on the frustrations of pounding out perfect strokes on a typewriter.