Author Laurence Moroney: write your ugly first draft yourself, then let an LLM edit it
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-18
Laurence Moroney, who has written many books and teaches people to use AI tools, responds to a popular post arguing the blank page is where you work out what you actually believe.
- Write the ugly version yourself, even if it's just ten bullet points — that's where the thinking happens.
- Then bring in the model as an editor: ask it what's unclear, what's missing, and where a reader might get lost.
His landing point: keep the thinking, still get the speed.
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