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PS: I am the author and owner of that site.

And just to add some more contest, my site used to be a wordpress blog back 15 years ago and I used to block semi-frequently but couldn't keep up with it. The domain has been parked for 10+ years now and i have been wanting to revive it forever but again, too much time than I had to spare. AI tooling has inspired me again and reduced the time significantly. I can now generate content much faster and review it for coherence and accuracy etc...

Lately i have been recording voice memos in the car and when i get home i take the transcript and ask AI to turn it into a blog post. In the past, it just sat on my phone because the effort to edit and research it and format it and type it was too time consuming.

The point is, there is a real person behind this, effort and thought went into it and now i can share my thought without worrying about formatting and grammer and css and blah blah.

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I feel you brother. Same boat. I've been able to do things I wanted to do for ages and knew how to do, but didn't have the time to type, essentially. I prefer to produce nothing than something half baked ("MVPs"), so I did nothing. Now I can do experiments, throwaway, start from scratch, design, redesign, throw away, and eventually have something I can be a little proud of.

Maybe, just maybe, there will a new era where crappy software (by crappy software I mean almost everything we see around us - open source and closed source) is not the norm anymore - because now a single, smart and knowledgeable enough person can write something like Kubernetes (which is my baseline for OK software) or even Linux in a reasonable amount of time. And maybe we won't be stuck with 40 year old (or more) technologies because "too hard to change". Did you ever try to add bottom padding - literally just bottom padding - to the command prompt in a terminal emulator (in my case, I tried Iterm and Kitty + tmux only)? It's near impossible. That is absurd.

Point is: bad software existed before (most of it), and good software existed before (very little). It will be the same in the future. It's just that now, less people coordinating are needed to right good software.

> now i can share my thought without worrying about formatting and grammer and css and blah blah

This is exactly what people want you to worry about. Doing otherwise signifies you’re low trust and don’t care about the reader.

The root of the above is: if you were competent, the points you listed above don’t take long and aren’t a meaningful inhibitor to making content. Like coding, AI is fancy autocomplete at this point. If you weren’t competent, you need to get there, otherwise you’re taking a shortcut on your personal brand which is extremely untrustworthy and looks awful. If you care so little about the reader and so much more about producing content, that is not going to come across well.

I see your point and respect and almost agree. At this point I would rather put something that is 95% good and takes me 30 minutes than spend several hours (that I don’t have) to get it to 100%. The kicker is it will never be 100% because someone will complain or nitpick something.

I appreciate the feedback though. Thanks.

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