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My sense is to avoid this have a personal blog.

That being said how many people write blogs with grammerly or chatgpt these days. The temptation to use these technologies all the time is too strong for even self preservation of your own (writers) voice.

My sense is that you use this technology you might be happy with the results at first but on later review you just notice something off in some sentences and maybe it just doesn’t flow right. I’m not convinced that it will replace writers jobs yet. Especially when you want to create something authentic and unique.

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> The temptation to use these technologies all the time is too strong for even self preservation of your own (writers) voice.

I don't know about that. I have played with ChatGPT/Copilot/etc enough to know what they're capable of doing. But the thing is, I enjoy programming. I enjoy breaking down a problem and solving it with code. I enjoy crafting elegant code. So I don't use AI even though I'm fully aware it could save me hours on projects. Why? Because I enjoy those hours very much.

Why am I telling you all this? Because I suspect many writers are the same and personal blogs are their canvas. They enjoy communicating. They enjoy crafting articles. They might have AI proof-read them, but they won't let them write everything. So, to me, there is hope that personal blogs will maintain their human element, as opposed to news websites or tabloids or learning platforms.

Agree. I've never even looked at any of these AI tools. I enjoy the process and the challenge of programming, and the rewards of doing it well. I have no desire for someone or something else to write code for me.

> So I don't use AI even though I'm fully aware it could save me hours on projects.

Enjoy this luxury while it lasts. Based on what I have seen in performance review committees for software developers, your peers who drive results faster than you do because they use AI will be rewarded more and will be more likely to survive rounds of layoffs when they inevitably happen.

That's fine. I genuinely wouldn't want to continue working in an industry that worked like that anyway, so I'd just quit and keep on programming with my own projects. So that luxury will last as long as I want it to.

I've come to the same conclusion. I became a programmer because in school I loved programming and saw myself loving the job, and I do.

If the job changes that drastically I'll just have to quit and find something else.

But what if you have to use an LLM at your new job?

Sometimes the value is specifically because my voice won't come through. When I'm stressed and being asked for unreasonable things at work, I know that I tend toward passive aggression. But professionally, that isn't the way I want my message to come across.

I use ChatGPT all the time to suggest how I could make sure something isn't passive aggressive. It'll point out parts that aggression and suggested changes. It can be for a short slack message, or a many paragraph message.

I have definitely read "blogs" written by stitching together LLM outputs. For years people were advised that a technical blog "looks good on a resume" so we saw lots of lightly rewritten Stackoverflow content. Now it's gotten easier.

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