> Even current mediocre LLM are great at writing bad first drafts.

Anyone is great at creating a bad first draft. You don’t need help to create something bad, that’s why that’s a common tip. Dan Harmon is constantly hammering on that advice for writer’s block: “prove you’re a bad writer”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVqYUaUO1cQ

If you get an LLM to write a first draft for you, it’ll be full of ideas which aren’t yours which will condition your writing.

Little plot twist, you can pitch an LLM an idea for a scene, then tell it to interrogate you thoroughly for the details, then tell it to generate a clean, tight draft optimized for efficient use of language and readability, and you basically get your own ideas back but with a lot of the boring parts of writing already done.

Making your writing itself boring and the same as everyone’s who used that technique, transforming it into something no one will want to read anyway.

You pretty much jumped to the most negative possible interpretation. You think there isn't an editing process?

There is no editing process during a first draft, no. That’s the whole point of a draft, it’s a separate process from revisions and editing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drafting_(writing)

Were you trying to be intentionally obtuse? What was your goal with that reply? Are you trying to troll?

`Anyone is great at creating a bad first draft`

Famously not so! Writer's block is real!

The rest of the paragraph and the link address exactly that.

There might be techniques that help overcome writer's block, sure. But it's still a real problem.

Getting an LLM to produce a not-so-bad first draft is just another technique.