The Satisfaction of a ChatGPT Plan

#NoFollowUpNecessary A couple weeks back, I was arguing that when people come up with ideas, the satisfaction is in the telling, not in building. And I was making this statement generally for idea sharing. But then, I also mentioned that people share their "ChatGPT plan" with me now. Rather than sharing the idea, they share the business plan on how to achieve the idea, entirely generated by AI. This resonated with several people who emailed me saying they have experienced the same thing. So someone they know has an idea, rather than risk the potential humiliation from being told their idea is bad, they share it with their favorite AI. Sycophancy being the default behavior, their idea is always validated. Even if not, the AI might suggest slight adjustment to the idea and make it valid. And at the end of a conversation with ChatGPT, the LLM, trying to be helpful, will always ask something in the line of: "Do you want me to create a step by step plan to achieve this?" The answer is…