> Have it rewrite your terrible first draft.

> Have it fix your grammar.

> Have it make your argument clearer.

> Have it turn your 2,000-word ramble into something people can actually read.

Please don't do this, and then try to "put some of yourself back into it".

By all means, use AI to find bugs. But don't let it write a single word. Let it tell you what's wrong, then you can fix it and iterate.

My rule of thumb is: AI is for automating tasks, tedium and filtering firehoses, not thinking and communicating.

Also, I've found it's best to never trust it's response to a "why" question (formatted this way because a lot of people will will ask AI to speak for them, so you can still get a"why" response without ever having personally prompted for it.)

I understand where you’re coming from but for me, LLMs were a godsend. It helps me every day to stop procrastinating and finally write tickets, specs, reports, “professional“ messages, documentation and a bunch of other stuff.

I give it (low effort) bullet points, general direction, plain (and usually too honest/direct and sometimes even insulting) message I would’ve sent, references and other stuff and things come always out better than what I could’ve ever produced.

For me, the alternative would be to not write at all or spend a disproportionate time on getting some motivation to even write a single paragraph.

I find using an AI for the first draft useful enough of a kick in the ass to actually get the thing written, which I've probably been procrastinating about for hours.

I rewrite it from there, and it's completely different by the time I'm done because it's version is terrible enough that it annoys me into correcting it.