Started using AI tools heavily about 18 months ago for client work. Articles, briefs, repurposing content, the usual freelance grind. It saved real time and I was grateful for that But something shifted that I only noticed recently. When I sit down to draft something from scratch now, my brain goes looking for a prompt box. The habit of externalizing that starting impulse has gotten into my muscle memory somehow. A journalist friend called it losing your idle gear, and that stuck with me. It...