TL;DR: I will stop using the Clanker to write my blogposts. I will use it as a copilot to help with annoying tasks, such as generating diagram code examples.
Over the last few years, I used AI as the main tool to formulate most of my blogposts. While drafting this post, I noticed that I could get a clean paragraph, but it did not resemble my own writing until I rewrote it myself. That was the turning point. I experienced how easy it is to publish words without thinking through them. I expect writing the whole draft myself will help me find my own voice.
This workflow has many advantages but, as you can guess, comes with some trade-offs.
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Helps turn ideas into published posts | Can make the writing sound less personal |
| Reduces the effort of drafting and editing | Encourages relying on AI for the main argument |
| Makes repetitive tasks easier | Can distance me from my own voice and thinking |
So in the end, if your goal is to become a better writer, AI can either help you or hold you back. A study of AI-assisted essay writing found that revising AI-generated text improved writing quality, while using it unchanged reduced it.
In short the found out that a better way to use Ai to generate text is
This is what I want to do to move Forward.
This is why I built my own Electron App where I will now write all my blog post moving forward.
The requirements that I had are
- Needs to work with Vim (I use Vim btw)
- Needs to have a smooth and minimalistic ui
- Needs to have VS Code shortcuts
- Gives me deterministic checks for Grammar and Spelling
- Has AI features to add inline diagrams and code snippets
- While I use my app, it should help me become a better writer
- and and and
Malleable Software #
The reason everyone can now write custom software is AI. For most apps, including personal productivity apps, you do not need to buy anything. You can say, “I like app X; please clone that for me.” Then add all the custom features you need.
This is what I did this is the first Blog Post that I have written in my custom app. Why I wrote this blog post I found many features or bug fixes that i need to fix
This is what the app looks like. Going forward, I will publish fewer blog posts, but they will feel closer to my own writing.