Robert Greene: AI is doing to writers what CAD did to architecture
david_perell · x · 2026-10-11
Author Robert Greene compares AI's effect on writers to what computers did to architecture: once design moved from hand sketching to programming formulas, buildings became formulaic — with faucets in nonsensical places — and the art of architecture disintegrated because designers no longer knew how to sketch.
His warning for writers: "People now don't know how to write because they depend on AI. They become lazy." The craft, he argues, risks the same erosion.
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