Tech companies structurally depend on writing to serve as evidence, in the same way that Bitcoin depends on proof-of-work hashing. However, in the last few years, LLMs have started to undermine this practice. How can writing be like proof-of-work? When I’m writing something at work, it’s not always to communicate an idea. Sometimes it’s because having a piece of writing is useful as evidence: of compliance with some process, of the fact that I put in effort, or of the fact that I know about some...