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See if this story rings a bell… You open your laptop. Cursor blinking. “I should send an email…” 30 minutes later, you’ve written three sentences. Deleted two. Stared at your inbox. Checked LinkedIn. Made coffee. Still nothing worth sending. So you do what everyone else is doing. You ask ChatGPT to write it for you.…
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