Something I’ve been actively thinking about is “How do you teach someone how to write?” I’m bulling on using AI to learn how to code, but if AI is your writing instructor, it can only help you if your writing is really bad. Some thoughts in no particular order: 1) Direct mentorship is very effective if it can be sustained for multiple years. Some of the writers who worked for me for that long just astound me with how well they can write, and our only interactions are me giving feedback about how to improve an article. It worked a lot better than I thought. Eventually, they develop a second nature for recognizing substandard writing (even if subtle) and it’s amazing. This is not a scalable model however. 2) Writing well requires volume in the early days. Writing is like running. If you are a beginner, there is no such thing as “working hard” vs “working smart.” If you are overweight and you start running, you will see results regardless. “Working smart” only matters when you are approaching your genetic limits (which most people don’t). If you are a business owner, you can automatically improve the writings skills of your employees by replacing your standups with written standups, then giving feedback on the writing when it isn’t clear what the update is. The nice thing is, people are an expert on what they worked on, so they only have to practice expressing it. Volume, for an early writer, is the only thing that really matters. 3) Most people have an undertrained vocabulary. Consider this analogy: Even if you never “use” math you should still learn it. Even if you never “use” recursion or DSA, you should still learn them. They train you on how to break a large problem down to smaller ones, which is basically your job as an engineer. For writers, your job is also to break a larger idea into smaller ones. Since words are the indivisible units of ideas, you need to have a good sense of them. If you can articulate the difference between - “insinuation” and “implicature” - “generalization” and “abstraction” - “foresight” and “forecast” - “interpolation” and “induction” then you are automatically training yourself to express ideas precisely — which is the whole point of writing.