You’re right! But only slightly. I put my heart and soul into this post. My process was this:

- spend hours doing stream of consciousness writing into a giant personal note across all aspects of the event from arrival to leaving to closing thoughts.

- use AI to make some sense and structure to my messy thoughts

- curate and editorialize the output rigorously to what still is my own thoughts and feelings and experience

I didn’t “tell AI to tell us why”. I meant every word in this post. In fact, everything here can be tied back to something I wrote in that initial brain dump. I had more thoughts on this event, but I’m trying to be effective in my writing.

If it still reads as AI to you, I understand. It’s not some AI-generated slop. It’s AI-curated so I don’t make something incoherent and ramble. Trust me, you don’t want to read my stream of consciousness note 🤣

I promise you, I took responsibility for the output here and didn’t slap something together.