> I don’t use AI when I write, for the very reason that writing itself is the act of organizing and clarifying my own thought. Letting the bot write for me would be like paying someone else to exercise for me and hoping that gets me in shape.

I don't know why the author chooses to distinguish writing prose and writing code here. [Software is made of decisions](https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1219758.html) and at least I usually like to flesh out those decisions through the act of writing code, which forces a level of precision that makes it hard (though not impossible) to handwave away important decisions.