Stationery does not make the text.

The story is that “stationery doesn’t make sentences, people just think about them and write them down using stationery, but good stationery makes writing easier than bad stationery.”

I think until a year ago it was a parable that could explain the relationship between tool (esp. software, etc.) and skill in a simple way, but then LLM came along and the cloud has gone up.

The ambiguous concept pointed to by the term “making sentences” separates into two, but it’s hard to explain.

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