Why Writing Still Matters – And Is Becoming More Important

“I’ll just have an LLM generate that real quick.”

I hear this sentence daily by now. And I get it – I use AI myself, have code generated, run my own [[02-Projekte/OpenClaw/Übersicht|OpenClaw]] node, have images generated. That’s not the problem. The problem is what gets lost in the process.

Writing Is Thinking – Not Just Documenting

Anyone who writes a text has to make decisions:

• What order is logical?
• Where am I still missing sources, where is my argument thin?
• What is the actual point – and what do I leave out?
• What do I want to convey between the lines?

This engagement forces depth. Science backs this up: Mueller and Oppenheimer (Princeton/UCLA) showed that those who took handwritten notes performed significantly better on conceptual questions – because they had to select and paraphrase. Scientific American | PMC

What Is Happening in Software Development Right Now

Architecture, spec, threat model, use cases, code, tests, deployment – all generated. Human-readable documentation is created because it’s required, not because anyone thinks it through.

Doshi and Hauser showed in 2024 in Science Advances: AI-assisted creative work is rated better individually, but collectively leads to significantly more similar results. PMC | arxiv

Innovation comes from friction, from discomfort, from engaging with a problem that doesn’t solve itself immediately. That friction is being generated away.