When writing, just the act of writing prompts for GPT helps me progress my thinking, even to the extent where actual response from GPT doesn't matter.

It's generally a useful mindset to get your logic and questioning concise, which a lot of the time can be most of the game.

Prompts for GPT = Pseudocode for thinking

100% true. Gives you a better understanding of your ideas across different contexts

why do you think the inertia to writing/creation is so high?

“I would spend 55 minutes defining the problem and then five minutes solving it.” - Einstein

As an architect and still somewhat connected to the academic system, there’s been a concern around ai doing the work of designing bldgs for students, yet no problem with rendering software. Imo the prompt becomes the work and in many ways 
 requires a more focused understanding of the concept than clicking render.

Yeah, sometimes it's like an internal dialogue I am forced to externalise to chatGPT, and just that little motion is enough to unblock me