Writing in a world overflowed with AI content
I hadn’t published a new article in years.
Ever since generative AI tools arrived, I’ve been struggling to find my place, my legitimacy, as a writer. These new tools are massively efficient. They get me the answers I need way faster than I used to.
What is left for us to write about?
Do we have anything to say that AI doesn’t provide?
And recently something hit me.
I had stopped writing.
But I hadn’t stopped reading.
If anything, I’m reading more.
AI doesn’t work the way people think
AI is great to help us get where we want to go 10X faster. I particularly see this in my role as a software engineer. Debugging, configuring and building things is now blazingly faster. But I’m still left with the hard parts of the job. The meaningful part of the job.
It’s the same with writing.
Most people don’t understand that AI is not intelligence, it’s maths.
It doesn’t “understand” your prompt. It doesn’t “read” your text. Not the way we, humans, do. It’s using statistical patterns in language to predict the most likely next word based on…