I started to use LLMs for writing before GPT got Chat- prefix. As English is the second language for me, AI helped me a lot to improve my writing and style. It was a huge boost to get your “personal editor”.
However, the more I used LLMs less I enjoyed writing. Hobby became routine and boring work, where I don’t create but some “layer”. So I slowly lost interest in writing blogs and articles. And I’m going to change it and return to writing, but only myself.
I’m not an anti-AI guy. I’m using it a lot in work and daily life; however, I prefer to use it for tasks that I don’t enjoy or where LLM can save me a lot of time on boring repetitive stuff. Like processing tons of JSON/spreadsheets, finding certain information in “too watery documentation”, collecting data about the required topic, and so on. However, the most “tasty” parts I leave for myself as writing Game Design ideas or doing some tricky algorithm, otherwise you can burn yourself out too fast. Well, even for such tasks, LLM can be useful - for example, I use it as “talking rubber duck” (extending classic rubber duck debugging) to brainstorm ideas and criticize and review myself - I found such usage doesn’t “drain fun” from my work.
So what Im going to do next? I’m going to write blogs, articles, and just silly thoughts. I know it will probably drown in the ocean of AI-slop content which flooded the internet nowadays. Ok. I don’t care. I’m going to write because I enjoy this process, not for likes.
Of course, it’s enjoyable to get some appreciations, but IMHO it should not be the goal - side-effect maybe. So the first step is to disable Copilot and AI-helper for markdown files. Ok, grammar checker still here, but “style it to…” - disabled. Let’s return some joy to our hobbies, which we can share with other human beings.
P.S.: The picture is Alan Wake, as for some reason this story comes to my mind here, no idea why.
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