Blogging in the aged of “ai”
My post about blogging as writing the tutorial that you wished you’d found really took off on Hacker News. There were a lot of excellent comments, but one thing kept coming up: what’s the point in blogging if people are using ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek to spoon-feed them answers? Who, apart from the AIs, will read what you write?
I was asking myself the same question when I started blogging semi-regularly again last year, and this post is an attempt to summarise why I decided that it was worthwhile. The TL;DR: blogging isn’t just about being read — it’s about learning and thinking, and having a durable proof that you can do both.
Let’s start off by summarising the two big reasons to blog about what you’ve learned, as you learn:
- It helps you make your newly-gained knowledge concrete.
- It will help other people in the future — they might be looking for the information you blogged about, and find it on your blog.
