Writing Manually (In Times of AI-generated Content)

In times of AI Writing, writing manually is more important than ever. As with many AI Generated texts, I’d rather see the prompts, it would have more soul and character than the output.

I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment of

I’d rather read the prompt by Clayton Ramsey

Writing yourself, writing manually is much nicer, to hear your unfiltered thoughts, than condensing them through an LLM, and get average-sounding sentences with no soul. To me, LLM writing is soulless. I even started to turn to Grammarly and Copilot, as these were a mere distraction to the actual task at hand: writing. Instead of writing, I was constantly grammar fixing, and ultimately, nothing got done.  Bsky

My experience is in writing, every time I use it for a bigger task (re-structure, or telling me the missing chapters), it does a very average and most importantly, distracting task for me. Instead of following my headspace, I am now adding some averaged chapters that can be found everywhere.

Also from Clayton’s article above:

I would rather see than the original prompt. The resulting output has less substance than the prompt and lacks any human vision in its creation. The whole point of making creative work is to share one’s own experience - if there’s no experience to share, why bother?

If it’s not worth writing, it’s not worth reading.

A great analogy found on Hackernews “Using an LLM to do schoolwork is like taking a forklift to the gym”.

If all we were interested in was moving the weights around, you’d be right to use a tool to help you. But we’re doing this work for the effect it will have on you. The reason a teacher asks you a question is not because they don’t know the answer." HN

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Origin: ChangeLog Podcast newsletter by Jerod Santo.
References: AI Writing
Created 2025-05-06