Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick

I saw this social media post recently in which the person wrote something like: “Why are you spending three hours writing an essay when ChatGPT could write it in 15 seconds?” I was insulted. First of all, writing that essay takes me eight hours, not three. Bar Chart showing how much time it takes ChatGPT to write an essay (not much time) vs how much time it takes me to write an essay (a lot) [illustration showing all the things I to do procrastinate writing] And that's just the actual typing of the first draft. [Timeline showing life events: Birth, Took First Steps, Learned To Ride A Bike, First Kiss, First Job, First Breakup, Said Something Dumb At A Party, Moved Away From Home, Graduated, Took A Road Trip, Climbed A Mountain, Fell In Love, Got A Dog, Kid Born, Begins Typing First Draft Once I have that first draft typed in a mere 14,000 times as long as it would take an LLM to do it, I have to edit it. As every writer knows, the first step in editing is making a sandwich. Or going for a walk, or running five miles, or sleeping five to nine hours. In the end, the LLM and I have both created a new thing. Maybe those things are the same. Maybe they're not. I guess the real question is: Can an LLM truly feel that writing is the only thing it ever really wanted to do in life, while simultaneously complaining to its spouse and its writer friends about how much it hates writing, but also wonder how it could ever do anything else?