Conflicted. Useful post, nice bits of insight.

But I feel emotionally conflicted because of how different it is from how I write.

And I have a suspicion that I need to get over it.

This is faster, produces something of value, and has a small chance of catching errors/bias in thinking. It's the same flow I use while writing code.

Writing from scratch now feels like those cooking videos where people make all the ingredients from scratch: rewarding but also maybe a tiny bit self-indulgent.

This feels like the 21st century: You bring the skills, the model brings the words.

Prior to reading this post, my biggest concern about LLM-assisted activities was I never felt like I was hitting a flow state when using an LLM, regardless of how productive I was able to be using the LLM. That lack of flow state left me feeling like I wasn't bringing 100% of what I could bring to the effort.

This article feels like useful insights into how to help myself get into a proper flow state when working with an LLM.

I totally get how LLMs can help you write, especially in the collaborative way described. But as a reader do I actually want to read that? Maybe for documentation or something it's fine, but if you're trying to convey an opinion or make a human connection it feels a bit... cheap?