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The work you're trying to do hasn't been done yet because you haven't done it. Nobody else will do it for you. The route is through, not around.
In a few hundred years, someone might transcribe your work by hand to understand how it holds together.
That's not a bad goal, actually.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-to-be-inspired-without-copying/
@Daojoan "The imitators fail because they copy the wrong layer." 💥
Great piece. I read the tag-line and clicked in, thinking about HST and his description of time spent transcribing Hemingway and Fitzgerald, just to get some of the "feel" of the process, and of course you'd referenced it. 😎
"Importance of doing the work vs instant end artefact" is an argument I have with a long-term acquaintance who is sadly all-in on GenAI, and this has given me some different framing on why LLM output just leaves me unmoved, and seems like cheap novelty at best.
@Daojoan Great piece!
It reminds me lot of how often transcribing solos is strongly recommended as *the* way to learn jazz. The goal isn’t to be able to reproduce the solos note for note but to soak in them to absorb their language and logic.
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