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by krapp 31 days ago
None.

Every word I write is my own, for better or worse. Every line of code, too. I started blogging again just to have a means of expression. No one reads it. No one cares. It isn't optmimized for SEO or whatever, but it's mine.

It's weird and sad that it's come to the point, after just a few years, that that's a thing. I'm just doing what I've always been doing but now people will call you a Luddite and a mental defective for not optimizing every aspect of your life around a chatbot, even if it sucks the fun out of everything.

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I feel you bro, we're in the same boat. I used AI for most of my coding (especially for a job) and writing for some time, but then just came a point when I stopped feeling any meaning at all. I could create some platform in days or write an engaging, SEO-optimized article for my product site, but it just felt totally wrong. Now I code myself and only use AI when I need to learn something (for example, I've been self-hosting all my stuff recently and AI sometimes helped to understand important security-related things) and I feel like a craftsman now again. The same with writing, I started writing essays on my website and also for my email list without any means of making money this time and each sentence I write makes me happy, and when I'm done writing a piece, I feel accomplished, which is impossible to get when writing with AI.