I'm glad the OP acknowledges that you have to have to do the writing yourself—though they say this more as a means to avoid getting pegged as having used an LLM, whereas I see the problem as being cognitive surrender.
I actually like this as a method for getting over writers block. The second the AI starts spitting out words I know it will be wrong and dumb and so I might as well do it myself. Enough activation energy to get started
Step two: close the LLM
Step three: pick up a pen and write
Writing with LLMs is a great way to make yourself stupid: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-08-07-ai-writing-stupid/
I'm glad the OP acknowledges that you have to have to do the writing yourself—though they say this more as a means to avoid getting pegged as having used an LLM, whereas I see the problem as being cognitive surrender.