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This blog post talks about how this site will grow moving forward, its unique voice behind an imperfect content and ideas, and ultimately how I think AI contributes (or doesn't contribute) to it.
Even though I use AI and extensively explore different models daily, and I believe in its benefits, I choose to stay away from it as much as possible on my personal website. I do this because I see value in the spontaneous creativity of a human mind and the undetachable uniqueness of its voice, and I can practice these here without the pressure of moving fast.
Using a second language
You've probably noticed already a few quirks on my writing. That's actually great. It'd be quite easy for me to drop these paragraphs on any LLM and ask for a some grammar and voice-tuning fixes, so you could read this blog in a more familiar combination of words. This action could also create something I believe is locked in a predictable frame you'd experience like a boring echo, so I'm intentionally not contributing to it (you're welcome 😁).
English is far from being a struggle for me at this point. I learned it in school and had the privilege of attending summer classes in England and Ireland, way before moving to the US. But still, Spanish is my spontaneous language; hence the quirks (and I'm sure errors) you noticed.
Avoiding AI
Here are a few more aspects of my writing I don't want to be shadowed by AI:
- Feelings, which don't necessarily have to be deep feelings. If I want to vent after a frustrating day failing to implement a feature, that sentiment needs to be represented in my own words.
- Isolated ideas. At first, I want to be OK keeping ideas unconnected, or deciding to bury them if I don't find the potential to be part of a mesh of interconnected concepts. I want to grow as I'm able to link and emerge thoughts; I don't want AI to "guess" those connections for me.
- Imperfect, vague phrases at first, that can potentially become something meaningful. I want to be able to circle back to expand or synthesize them my own way.
Allowing AI
So, when or where do I use AI? On this website, I only use AI on certain scenarios:
- Things I've done before and I just need to implement again. An example of this would be bringing a spacing system back from another project.
- Performing in-bulk or repetitive actions, like fixing an error I've just been aware of and I'd been carrying over across multiple files.