AI 只能写诗，功夫却在诗外：论输入才是真正的创造

✍ Zara Zhang🕐 2026-04-23📦 4.9 KB 🟢 已读 𝕏 文章列表

文章指出人们常误以为写作等同于生成文本，实则思考才是创作的核心。AI虽能高效完成输出，但无法替代“诗外”的功夫——即积累的生活阅历、用户洞察与判断力。真正的价值在于决定“做什么”的输入过程，而非“怎么做”的输出环节。

# AI can write the poem. But the real work happens before you pick up the pen. **作者**: Zara Zhang **日期**: 2026-04-23T01:22:56.000Z **来源**: [https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2047124027370869016](https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2047124027370869016) --- ![Image](/doc/991/image/img_f76cf70cc7a1.jpg) I was recently discussing writing with a friend, and I realized a lot of people have a misconception about what creation actually is. People tend to think writing = generating text, so since AI is great at generating text, AI must be great at writing. But I have a counterintuitive take: when I sit down at my computer and start typing, that's not the beginning of writing. It's the last step. 80% of the writing is already done. It just happened in my head. The idea I'm writing about, I've probably been mulling over for a week or two. I've talked about it with different people, gotten various reactions and moments of recognition, seen other people post related thoughts. Different ideas and experiences collide and intertwine in my head, gradually forming the rough shape of what I want to write. By the time I actually sit down to type, the words flow out. It's easy, maybe 10 minutes and I'm done. So how long did my writing process actually take? The typing part took 10 minutes. But the thinking, the colliding, the forming of a perspective, that part probably took a week. Except nobody considers that time "writing." That's just "working, living." My social media looks like I'm posting constantly, but I actually spend no more than 3 to 5 hours a week making and publishing content. Because shooting videos and writing posts is just the "last mile" of content creation for me. By the time I'm talking into my phone about something, that idea has been circling in my head for days. I might have been thinking about it while brushing my teeth in the morning, thinking about it on my drive to work, bringing it up at lunch with someone... For content creation, "thinking" is 90% of it, and actually "making" the content is only 10%. And because my day job, my learning, and my hobbies are all AI related, I don't need to set aside extra time to do this "thinking." I'm already doing it day and night. Turning thoughts into content is just the easy part at the end. There's an ancient Chinese saying that I really like: "功夫在诗外" (the real craft lies outside the poem): writing a good poem isn't just about the act of writing. It takes a rich life, reading, thinking. AI can do a lot of things now, and everyone's worried about their jobs being replaced. I think every one of us should be asking: what is the actual essence of my work? - Writing ≠ generating text - Building product ≠ writing PRDs - Designing ≠ making mockups - Engineering ≠ writing code AI can quickly generate text, write product specs, make visuals, write code... but these are all the last mile of each job. They're the "poem" part. The part that happens "outside the poem" might be where the real value lives: - A good PM isn't just spitting out specs. They combine deep user understanding with technical judgment to figure out what's worth building - A good designer isn't just making mockups. They combine insight into human nature with business thinking to find the best version of an experience - A good marketer isn't just making videos and marketing assets. They precisely nail down a product's target audience and value prop, and they deeply understand what story to tell which audience. ... When a marketer writes a piece of viral marketing content, behind it there might be 10 customer interviews, years of industry intuition built up over time, their own real experience actually using the product... It's because of all that solid input that the best creative can happen. When I'm vibe coding, I notice AI is great at adding things. It'll pile on all kinds of features and interactions that "seem reasonable," but what it builds tends to be overly busy. AI is really bad at subtracting. Subtraction is an "outside the poem" kind of thing. Subtraction requires you to judge what actually matters, what's actually worth doing, what will survive contact with real users. Now that we have AI, it's forcing us to look past the surface and think about what makes us human. AI is good at producing output. But the output isn't the work. The input is the work. ## 相关链接 - [Zara Zhang](https://x.com/zarazhangrui) - [@zarazhangrui](https://x.com/zarazhangrui) - [1.4K](https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2047124027370869016/analytics) - [But the output isn't the work.](https://x.com/karrisaarinen/status/2045257582470983691?s=46) - [Upgrade to Premium](https://x.com/i/premium_sign_up) - [9:22 AM · Apr 23, 2026](https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2047124027370869016) - [1,449 Views](https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2047124027370869016/analytics) - [View quotes](https://x.com/zarazhangrui/status/2047124027370869016/quotes) --- *导出时间: 2026/4/23 11:27:03*

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