I like writing dialogue. AI gives me some idea of how another person would respond. It does rhythm and wit very well. But it doesn't understand phonetics. It writes dialogue like a 16 year old, enthusiastic and amateurish.

I like riffing off AI's creativity. It gives me creative ideas for scenes and conflicts, and I carve whatever it gives me into something pretty, like a lapidarist.

Also AI helped in writing an engine for it - things like VNs don't normally allow for the pacing of good dialogue. So I had to do something to allow for a little back and forth, interruptions, change of tone, etc.

I strongly relate to this. At some level, the rise of AI assistants a few years after I learned to code was a major, and unpleasant, inflection point in my enjoyment of programming. Debugging became less satisfying, and the sense of mastery I once enjoyed creating something out of nothing seems cheapened by its automation.