six months of heavy chatgpt use killed my ability to write a bad first draft and i didnt notice until it was gone

Noticed this last week when i tried to write something without ai for the first time in maybe three months. a simple 300 word thing, notes really, nothing anyone would see. i sat there and couldnt produce anything. not writers block, something worse. my brain wouldnt let me write the crappy first version. for six months my workflow has been: think for a minute, paste the context into chatgpt, get a draft, edit it. the edit step is where i thought my value was still going in. and it was, technically. the drafts i was shipping were better than what i used to ship alone.