This is a list of posts about AI that I read and enjoyed. Some may have my thoughts below the post.
2026
June
^ Excellent thoughts on some of the arguments people make (and perhaps I have made in the past) for writing with AI and how they're still offloading even when they think they aren't. if you're using AI, you're offloading. You're having it do work that you aren't doing yourself. Even if the thoughts are yours, you're removing the human elements of organizing and articulating those thoughts. I think it's very important to be honest with yourself using a technology like this.
May
You are producing more code and shipping less software. You have made your situation measurably, demonstrably worse, and you have a dashboard that says productivity is up 40%.
^ Yes this is so important and another reason not to use AI to do everything for you. Often even if you ask if it has plagiarized anything, it will say no, despite literally doing that.
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waffles.bearblog.devEven in my blog, I sometimes degrade my writing to a level for the sole purpose of signaling authenticity.
^ same and I hate it. I should care less what people think of my writing but I do have at least one blog worth reading and I get a little disappointed in myself when I intentionally leave typos and misspelled words just to appear human. I will never abandon the em dash, though. interestingly, I do this more frequently when writing about AI
^ This is what I'm trying to get at and almost every AI argument I make on this topic. The technology enhances or speeds up stuff that you already know. It cannot fill in blanks for stuff you don't know. if your prompt is limited in understanding, and you're also unable to review the output and understand it, the AI is not going to fill in those blanks for you. if you, as an amateur coder go to AI to build something complex, it's going to be missing all kinds of best practices because you didn't know to prompt or check for them.