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№ 81 Saturday, 27 December 2025

If You Use AI To Write, You'll Never Be Able To Get AI To Write For You

What’s funny about AI and writing?

Most people think AI is making bad writers better.

It’s not.

They also think it’s making good writers bad

Sometimes it is

But sometimes?

People who’ve spent years writing without AI, are getting incredible results writing with AI

How?

The people who’ll write well with AI are the people who’ve already written hundreds of their own pieces.

Because they have something to feed it. A voice to reference. Patterns it can learn.

Most people are using AI to write their stuff, so they never develop anything they can give it to make their writing better.

They’re outsourcing before they’ve built the thing worth outsourcing.

Which means the gap is widening, not closing.

The coaches who spent years writing their own stuff?

They can now write brilliantly with AI, because they have >300 posts Claude can study.

The coaches who started with AI?

They sound like everyone else who started with AI.

AI doesn’t make you a better writer. It makes your existing writing more efficient.

If you don’t have an existing voice, you’re going to sound like everyone else.

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