If you write one for likes and shares then yeah, totally dead. The same is true for all internet content though. AI has removed the need for anyone to ever visit a website again if they're happy to read what AI generates.
If you write one to solidify your thinking, or for you to refer back to in the future, then they're just as useful as ever.
Also, if you write a good post people will drop into the comments to accuse you of generating it, which is pretty disheartening. You can't blame people for not sharing.
I'm searching for them harder than ever. Ironically, I have agents crawl for independent bloggers so I can add more people to my ever-growing RSS feed.
It's still important to still be able to think and write. You can really put yourself on the cutting edge of things. And then you can translate that into better prompts.
The more I think about it, many of the questions people ask here on HN are very much already answered through prompting. That's sort of weird. If you want a blog post on something, just ask an AI and they'll be pulling from blog posts anyway.
I suppose in view of model collapse, technical blogging is the counter-balance - and if technical blogs dies, the whole ship will eventually go down as well. Maybe that's the whole plan?!?
I haven't thought about it, but it's not a bad idea! The subject matter overall is a bit eclectic, but if I value something, surely someone else who hasn't yet found it will too!
I still see them occasionally and read them when I can. Because the content a human has made is much more interesting than something possibly plausible but useless that an Agent could tell me. I've been working on a project that'll look at the HN new submissions and start to filter out the stuff I really don't care about (news, product announcements, stuff about LLMs), which makes technical blogs more likely to show up, then I can bookmark them for later reading
If you write one for likes and shares then yeah, totally dead. The same is true for all internet content though. AI has removed the need for anyone to ever visit a website again if they're happy to read what AI generates.
If you write one to solidify your thinking, or for you to refer back to in the future, then they're just as useful as ever.
Also, if you write a good post people will drop into the comments to accuse you of generating it, which is pretty disheartening. You can't blame people for not sharing.
I'm searching for them harder than ever. Ironically, I have agents crawl for independent bloggers so I can add more people to my ever-growing RSS feed.
Ooh. Interesting approach! Have you considered publishing a list of those blogs somewhere?
I recently launched a hackers' blog aggregator at http://tinkeri.ing - the source urls are at https://tinkeri.ng/extracted.txt - those are a very cleaned up version of the sites from https://popularity.refactoringenglish.com/
It's still important to still be able to think and write. You can really put yourself on the cutting edge of things. And then you can translate that into better prompts.
Musk recently said that X is really where it's at in terms of AI discussion. https://share.gemini.google/ZgqevKTRL55J
The more I think about it, many of the questions people ask here on HN are very much already answered through prompting. That's sort of weird. If you want a blog post on something, just ask an AI and they'll be pulling from blog posts anyway.
The issue is "Model Collapse" and synthetic data as outlined here: https://share.gemini.google/pLAEw3anmY1W - my questions were actually posed here on HN beforehand https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536605 I just went and asked C3PO about it afterward. The commenter could have done the same.
I suppose in view of model collapse, technical blogging is the counter-balance - and if technical blogs dies, the whole ship will eventually go down as well. Maybe that's the whole plan?!?
I haven't thought about it, but it's not a bad idea! The subject matter overall is a bit eclectic, but if I value something, surely someone else who hasn't yet found it will too!
I still see them occasionally and read them when I can. Because the content a human has made is much more interesting than something possibly plausible but useless that an Agent could tell me. I've been working on a project that'll look at the HN new submissions and start to filter out the stuff I really don't care about (news, product announcements, stuff about LLMs), which makes technical blogs more likely to show up, then I can bookmark them for later reading
They’re not dead. They’re resting ;-)
Mine is and rightly so. AI will do a better job at educating you on any technical subject than I could have ever hoped for.
I can only hope my years of writing and open source code projects are useful to OpenAI otherwise it was all for nothing.