Using LLMs to find not-that-rock

Imagine someone tells you to get them a rock. You go find one, bring it back, and they reply ‘no, not that rock’. They didn’t know exactly what they wanted, but they knew yours wasn’t it.

When writing, I always start by dumping a detailed outline with points and subpoints. And then, ugh, I feel a wall. How do I turn this into prose? I ask an LLM to try, I look at the ablated text, and I hate it. No, definitely not that rock. More like this.