It began, as these things so often do, with a message fired off into the digital void:That was me, asking ChatGPT to help write an article about writing an article with ChatGPT. A bit like using a mirror to check if your other mirror is working — only with more existential dread and less toothpaste. Why am I doing this? Because I want to write more. For other people and in public. But every time I sit down to start, I get a polite but firm "you must be new here" from my own brain. So I’ve tur...

It began, as these things so often do, with a message fired off into the digital void:That was me, asking ChatGPT to help write an article about writing an article with ChatGPT. A bit like using a mirror to check if your other mirror is working — only with more existential dread and less toothpaste. Why am I doing this? Because I want to write more. For other people and in public. But every time I sit down to start, I get a polite but firm "you must be new here" from my own brain. So I’ve tur...