AI-generated crap:
I have a habit of leaving things in draft. Not because I think they’re bad.
Mostly because they’re almost done, which is a very comfortable place to stop.
So this blog is me trying to not do that.
In practice, this is a place to keep track of things I’m spending time on. A mix
of technical projects and personal interests, mostly notes, experiments, and
whatever hobbies happen to be in rotation. It’s also a mild form of
accountability, which I seem to need.
I like reading personal blogs. They feel slower and more human than social
feeds, which feels especially nice in a world increasingly full of generated
content.
The internet used to have more personal spaces like this. I miss that, so
I made one.
Messy, sloppy, me:
For years now, I’ve had ideas of starting a blog. I don’t really like writing, and I don’t think I’m particularly good at it, but I just wanted to have a place I could put my thoughts on the internet.
I tried to start this particular blog using AI as a shortcut, but coming back to it, it’s incredibly obvious that it’s written by AI. I’m gonna leave it here as a reminder how bad it is/was.
It’s very interesting to me how quickly I/we all became accustomed to detecting AI-generated text. Once you see it, you can’t really unsee it.
I’ve seen a ton of posts on Hacker News in praise of people starting their own blogs, and even higher praise where people are specifically calling out that they DON’T use AI, and I have to agree. The beauty in the little bit of sloppy writing feels human in a way I don’t think I had context for pre-AI.
So here we go again, but this time, I think I’ll let that sloppiness/lack of writing experience shine. Not even really going to edit it or proofread with AI. At the very least I can actually call this thing my own.