Nor is it to have the AI clean up your writing.

The best method is write, and when you hit a wall, or might even be done, ask the model "Do not rewrite this, but read it, step back and consider it as a whole, then tell me what strikes you, what works, what could use some work."

Then create another draft. Repeat until neither you or the model see much to improve, or you don't consider the remaining model critiques convincing given your greater understanding of the context.

Use the model's expertise to raise the bar on the quality of writing you do that day. And you will have raised the quality you expect and get from yourself going forward.

If it is really important, then once you are convinced you are "done", have the model make a complete rewrite as it sees best. After all that writing, anything that improves at that point will pop, and you won't forget it.

Any important task should be used to improve one's skills. With a model or without. That's the healthy frame of mind for using models.

    The problem isn't laziness — it's abdication.

Whoever even posts these on HN should take a look in the mirror. Are you trolling?

But perhaps that's the author's point?

You could be Sauron or you could be Frodo, but most people (including AI detractors) are fucking Gollum.