AI Can Write Poems. The Real Work Is Outside the Poem.
On creation, the last mile, and the part of work that can't be replaced.
「By the time I sit down at the keyboard and start typing, my writing process is basically already at the finish line.」
「What AI does is the last mile. The work outside the poem is what every job is actually about.」
「AI is great at addition but doesn't know how to subtract — and subtraction is where the real judgment lives.」
I was talking to a friend in product planning the other day, and we ended up agreeing that most people misread AI. They casually equate "creating" with "making content" with "generating text." Since AI is great at generating text, the conclusion follows almost automatically: it must be a great content creator.
But based on my own experience, the more typical pattern is the opposite. By the time I sit down at the keyboard and start typing, my writing process is basically already at the finish line — the first 80% has already happened, just inside my head, in scattered fragments through the day.
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