First Draft Club

After watching David Perell talk about writing with AI, he made clear a loose thought that I'd had about writing and AI that I hadn't put to words yet. Nonfiction writing is getting disrupted by AI.. and quickly.

As I'm writing this, there's many tailwinds to AI disrupting nonfiction writing:

- experience of many (LLM) vs experience of one
- Deep Research
- clear pattern to follow (be concise)

At the same it doesn't take much further thought to realize why that's more exciting than depressing. I use Deep Research daily. It gives me the research intern I'd never had at my disposal. I have co-writer who I can ramble endlessly to at any time of the day. Chat will even help make sense of my rambling for me.. at least if I ask nicely.

Luckily we have some "data" that's not yet uploaded to the LLM-hivemind-conciousness. Experiences and expertise. Reminds me of this great quote Dave Chappelle had from Kanye when he first met the guy

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totally agree with your take on ai shaking up the nonfiction world! it's wild how it turns into a limitless research assistant, right? it's like having an extra brain on call 24/7. but you're right, human experiences and expertise still hold their unique power. ai can assist, but it can't replace the depth of real-life stories and insights. excited to see where this all leads!