This year’s Gaokao essay topics just dropped, and 12.9 million students just put down their pens. The internet is already buzzing: "Could AI write a good essay on this?" "Would ChatGPT get into Tsinghua?" That’s the wrong question to ask. The real question for most of us isn’t whether AI can write for you—it’s whether AI can help you write better. These are two completely different things.
Let me break down what writing actually looks like. It’s a chain: you start with a fuzzy idea, then judge whether it’s worth writing about, then gather supporting materials, then organize scattered thoughts into a structure, then draft it, then check facts and logic, then polish the expression, and finally present it. Most people who say "I can’t write" don’t block at every step. You might have great ideas but get stuck finding material. Or you have plenty of material but can’t structure it. Or you produce a draft but feel something’s off and can’t pinpoint it.
Everyone’s bottleneck is different, but we all label it the same way: "I can’t write." This is where AI can genuinely help—not by writing for you, but by acting as a dedicated coach at the exact point where you stall. Think of it as a set of tools: one helps you pick a topic, another helps you find sources, another structures your outline, another checks your logic, another adjusts your tone. In the past, only professional writers and publishing teams had access to this kind of collaborative chain. Ordinary people had to shoulder every step alone—which is why most gave up.
Now AI can be split into different roles to solve different problems along that chain. It’s not "write for you," it’s "make it possible for you to write." Let’s look at this year’s Gaokao essay prompts—whether it’s the National Volume I asking you to discuss how a word’s meaning changes, Volume II asking you to reflect on "the sun and moon never lose their form, so they shine again after being obscured," or the Shanghai volume asking you to think about how technology reshapes our imagination—the real test is your ability to extract a clear judgment from a vague feeling and express it in a structured way. That skill can’t be trained by "letting AI write an essay for me and reading it."
If you treat writing as a chain and use AI as a sparring partner at each link—pushing you to think deeper during topic selection, expanding your search for material, and spotting logical holes after you draft—you’re actually training your own judgment and expression. AI just makes the process smooth enough to keep going. The method that keeps you practicing is the method that actually works.
For example, the tool we recently built arranges eight AI experts to cover each step, from topic to polish. It’s not about taking over—it’s about guiding you through every move until you own it yourself. That’s the kind of practice that turns a one-time exam into a lifelong skill.