I began writing professionally in 1985, something that feels like a lifetime ago. I was a young copywriter, and the pencil was still very much a tool of my trade. The Macintosh was new, and so was I. In a curious way, we grew up together, and I don’t think that’s inconsequential. I watched the tools of writing change around me. Pencil and paper gave way to point and click, and eventually the internet and search became integral to the mechanics of writing. I embraced most of those changes. But the basic relationship remained rather mechanical and the graphical user interface was a tool to write something. That’s what I thought. But Large language models changed that relationship, almost overnight. Here was a technology that could work directly with an unfinished idea and do something with it. I could offer the machine a bit of a thought and get something back that might actually move the thought forward. I jumped in headfirst, not realizing that my head (brain) was at the heart (soul) of this …