Doesn't thinking with AI make writing slower?
At first, and that is the point. You are buying depth, not speed. Over a few pieces it is faster.
At first, yes, and that is the point. You are not buying speed. You are buying depth, and depth is the thing worth having.
The fast path, hand the model a prompt and take its clean draft, feels quicker right up until you notice the argument was never yours and cannot survive a hard question. Then you rewrite it, or worse, you ship it. That is not fast. That is expensive.
Used to make the problem harder before it makes the prose easier, AI gets you to a sharper claim than you would have reached alone, and it gets you there without hollowing out your own thinking. Over a handful of pieces it turns out faster, because you stop rewriting drafts that cohered before they earned it.
Slower on the first draft, quicker to something true. That is a trade worth making every time.
The method is on one page: The Think-Harder Writing Workflow.
Cheers,
-Titus
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