Comment by scottfalconer

I think it was faster in that I would have never written the book without the LLMs. Essentially they unlocked the swirl of thoughts and notes that lived somewhere between my head, TextEdit, emails to myself, and anywhere else I stashed things.

It's like it unblocked the "hard part" (getting the words into a coherent form for others), while letting me focus on the "value parts" (my unique perspective / ideas).

It might not be that overall it saved me time, but it made it a hell of a lot more fun, so in the end I completed it - and maybe AI helping us see things through to completion is where we'll see a big unblock in human potential.