It’s 2025 and the machines are spewing out written content quicker than we can consume it! Unsurprisingly, everyone has a take. This post will be light on opinions outside the scope of my own work. The intention here is to present some “nutrition facts” type information so you can understand what you’re consuming on this site.
In short: My thoughts! They’re from me!
While I have used and will likely continue to make use of LLMs — mostly for code debugging — I find when a machine starts doing the bulk of the writing for you it isn’t really your writing anymore. The end result might convey the messages you had in mind, but it’s more akin to delegating the work and rubber-stamping it with your approval after review. I want my blog entries and project writeups to be valuable because they explain my process and thoughts, as such, I am not using generative tools to write content for this site at this time. Should this no longer be the case, I’ll probably post about how and why while attempting to milk this change in approach for clout on LinkedIn.
I admittedly find it slightly frustrating that em dashes, usage of lists, and generally “proper” markup and formatting have become associated by some with low-effort, LLM-generated content. I don’t use the proper dashes because I made a machine spit out my post, I use them because I learned about them in typography class and I like ‘em!
But I Wanted Hot Takes!
I don’t really feel like I have much new critique regarding the various “AI” technologies of the present. My opinions are pretty much a mishmash of the following blog posts or articles:
- I Am Disappointed in the AI Discourse by Steve Klabnik
- What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom by Piers Gelly
- It’s Rude to Show AI Output to People by Alex Martsinovich
- AI Will Change the World But Not in the Way You Think by Thomas Hunter II