The year is 2030.
AI blogs have taken over.
You wish there were only a tweet that feels half-human.
But there’s nothing left to read.
The other morning I opened up Twitter and immediately saw this daily routine from Justin Welsh.
The guy reads for an hour in the morning while sipping coffee.
Hell yeah! Let’s read, learn, comment, and engage with all our fellow writers!
I was soo fired up for the next hour! I opened Hashnode and Medium - not a big Medium fan, but it was coming up the past few days. Then this happened
Medium’s For You (for me, at least) tab is mostly a pile of half or entirely auto-generated texts or copies of those texts. I was frantically opening blog posts, hoping for a human word.
I did this until my free quota ran out for the member-only articles because, yes, some of these were member-only articles.
And I closed Medium at that moment.
I had slightly more luck with Hashnode’s Personalized recommendations. Their built-in AI is still in its early stages but integrates well with the new editor.
Unless they add some filtering, I’m afraid it’ll be much like Medium.
I wish there were more things to read for software developers.
More authentic stories, more viewpoints.
I like reading developer stories because of the unknown.
I don’t know these people, and suddenly a key moment, a life experience, a solution worth a promotion unfolds in front of my eyes.
The other day I found a memory leak in my web app. I thought it was X, but it turned out to be Y.
I migrated from SQLite to Postgres because this scaling issue happened to me:
I was debugging a simple To-Do list app when I discovered the following accessibility issues. Here’s how I solved them
One way to write such stories is to create experiences.
Experiences separate writing that gets past the viewer’s attention and writing that gets read by many.
AI-generated blog posts stink of the lack of experience - for now, which is crazy.
They sound predictable, and you feel like, ”I’ve already read this somewhere”.
Platforms such as Hashnode support embedding and kicking off your blog posts with perfectly-worded, SEO-optimized bits that erase the experience factor.
They earn you good SEO points, sure!
But at what cost?
OMG, the AI-generated text reads exactly like the articles I used to hire people from UpWork to write on my tea blog, only grammatically correct. Just a bunch of useless words and needless exclamations.
I also like to read what people have to say from their personal experience. To me it's the only way the article can be made actionable, everything else is just generic crap. Sad that most articles are just poor regurgitations of other popular posts on the topic.
Nowadays I tend to just look up people who do things related to that topic and follow what they have to say. Their newsletter is almost always the first thing I look for.