Let's get the disclosure out of the way: I wrote this with AI. This exact post went through the three rounds in the title, so if it reads clean, that's the point. If it doesn't, that's the more interesting comment.
It started some paragraphs, cleaned up others, and helped turn a pile of dictated notes into something readable. If you find a sentence that sounds suspiciously polished, tell me where. I'm curious which ones I missed.
I don't really think of an article as a finished object anymore. I write one version, then it has to travel. LinkedIn needs a different opening. X needs half the words. A newsletter can keep the context that a social post has to lose. Sometimes the same idea ends up in five places, each with its own limits and conventions.
This is where AI saves me a lot of time. It can cut, rearrange, reformat, and produce ten versions without getting bored. The original writing is another matter. I still don't trust it to do that alone.
Writing is fashionable to declare dead right now. Why bother learning when AI can generate a post in seconds? It reminds me of the way people talked about SEO around 2016. SEO didn't disappear. It changed, picked up a few new abbreviations, and carried on taking up everyone's time.
