The AI Writing Boom Is a Lie. You’re Just Outsourcing Your Thinking.
Writing is the transfer of information from your brain to mine. When you use an LLM to fill in the gaps of your half-formed ideas, you aren’t saving timeβyou’re replacing your actual mental model with plausible filler. The AI writing boom isn’t making us more productive; it’s allowing us to outsource our thinking. The result is a flood of perfectly structured, completely meaningless text.