Why Writing Matters Now
4 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Lenny Rachitsky and a guest warn against letting AI do your writing for you. Writing forces you to think clearly. Draft your own ideas and briefs first, then use AI for polishing later.

Lenny Rachitsky and a guest warn against letting AI do your writing for you. Writing forces you to think clearly. Draft your own ideas and briefs first, then use AI for polishing later.
over-rely on AI. That's just the challenge everybody's going to have. And then we start to lose our ability to write, read long documents. Is there anything you do that you are trying to avoid that?
I think this writing as thinking discipline is one of the main pieces that I employ in my day-to-day to make sure I'm not overly atrophying my thinking abilities. I will, again, outsource all writing as reporting as much as possible to the model, but writing as thinking, I have to do myself.
So what I'm hearing is write the idea, the brief, the plan yourself, and even don't use it to improve on the writing.
I might use AI in the middle to research specific elements or push back on some ideas, but start yourself, end yourself with a piece of writing, and that doesn't deteriorate your thinking.

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