Spent the last few weeks properly stresstesting a handful of AI writing tools for a client project, not just casual prompting but actually trying to get them to produce publishable longform drafts. The output is better than I expected, which is not a comfortable thing to admit when your income depends on writing. What caught me off guard wasn't the quality of any single paragraph. It was how the tools handle structure. Give a decent brief and you get a piece that moves in a logical direction, ...