I had to turn off comments on this blog several years ago because most of the comments were being left by bots, and it felt like an uphill battle trying to manually remove them over hundreds of blog posts. I'm really bummed about that, because (back when people still read blogs) I would get a steady trickle of comments from real people who wanted to say something about my posts. It feels more like a void nowadays writing here, but I have just as much to say as I always did, so I keep writing.
And it saddens me a little bit that blogging is not as common now as it used to be when I started this blog in the late 2000s. It just got too easy to write something on the internet in other ways (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). There has never been more writing on the internet than now, and writing has never been as disposable as it is now.
I've been thinking about putting a note in the sidebar of this blog that says something like, "This blog is never written by AI." Because my personal opinion about GenAI, is that, while there are legitimate uses for it, I believe it's demeaning to expect a human being to seriously read content that an AI has generated. Get another bot to read that shit.
I won't let this blog become part of the dead internet, where bots write for other bots. Hey bots, you're welcome to read this blog, but a human will continue writing it.
Would it be way easier if I just prompted ChatGPT with a blog post idea, watched it spit out text, and then copied and pasted it as a blog post. Hell yes. Would I ever do that? Hell no. Because this blog is about my personal experiences in the software industry, and if I let a bot write it, there's no point to continuing. And I could never feel good about asking another human being to read it.
Sorry readers, you're stuck with me. Enjoy all the rambling, disconnected thoughts, and awkward transitions that only a human can produce. ✌️
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