Writing using AI and LLMs
On using AI to augment writing in your voice
Artificial Intelligence slop is everywhere now. You don’t need a detector. A few sentences in, you know. I fell into this trap early. Writing emails with AI, watching the output land flat and mechanical. While the phrasing and the structure was fine, and none of it sounded like me.
Jimmy Soni, talking to David Perell on an episode of How I write, made a distinction that stuck: AI isn’t the writer. It’s the tool that gets the picture in your head onto the page. You write the draft, in your voice, and then use AI to find better words, sharpen sentences, push back on weak arguments. The writing stays yours. The voice stays yours.
That’s the only way it works. The moment you outsource the draft, you’ve outsourced the voice. And the voice is the only thing worth keeping.