A major reason that it didn’t make sense to use AI to write an essay about a substantive topic is that until you write the essay you don’t actually know what you want to say or what you think. You think you do, but it is the writing itself that actually gets the thinking done.
upon Doing The Thing, you will invariably find two things to be true:
1. Doing The Thing was pretty easy, actually
2. not having Done The Thing was bothering you more than you thought it was