You know what? This rant is by AI. OR IS IT?
But what... is this rant? And how much does this 'take' weigh?
Ok,enough Vsause.
Listen, I love this community, but i’m about five minutes away from deleting my bookmarks. Is anyone else noticing that many of the "technical" articles lately feel like they were spat out by a prompt engineer who doesn't even have VS Code installed??
Just remember why we use ad blockers? Because the internet started shoving ads down our throats. There was a time when that wasn't the case, and same goes for the content too. We're reaching a point where we’ll need "AI-Blockers" just to find a single human thought.
I’m talking about those "The Future of Rust in 2026" or "Why You Should Stop Using Promises" posts that have no soul(figuratively). They all use the same structure, the same weirdly polite AI tone, and the same "In conclusion, it's important to remember..." ending.
It’s just noise. pure noise.
And here’s the kicker;(see that's what I am talking about), we’re basically speedrunning The Model Collapse. AI is just dogfooding its own content at this point. Bots are scraping bots to train more bots to write more "Top 10" lists for other bots to read. It’s an Ouroboros of mid-tier content.
The only exception is Reddit. Seriously. It’s the last place on earth where a human will call your architecture "garbage" with the kind of specific, angry detail that an LLM would be too "polite" to ever generate. As of now I only trust a dev if they're being slightly rude to me. At least I know they're real.
And of course, because we’re devs, half of us are probably busy writing Python scripts for two days straight just to automate a content generation task that takes 2 mins and we only need to do once a week. Classic. We’ll spend 48 hours avoiding 120 seconds of manual work just to add more fluff to the pile.
Except now, the "manual work" we're avoiding is thinking. Everyone is building their own "personal brand agent" to vomit out 6 rants and 2 articles every single day. We’re literally building the machines that are going to bury our own community under a mountain of generated sludge.
I don’t want a "comprehensive guide" written by an LLM that’s just hallucinating documentation. I want to hear about the time you broke the build at 5pm on a Friday. I want to see your messy, non-optimized, "this shouldn't work but it does" code snippets.
If an article reads like it was written by someone who thinks "touching grass" is a new Linux command, skip it. Give me the grit, the bugs, and the actual mistakes. That’s how we actually learn, not by reading the same AI-generated list for the millionth time.
If we keep automating the "soul" out of dev blogs, who is all this content even for? Who knows. Who knows. Who knows. (Voice fading...)
Believe me, I am not AI, it wouldn't do that right? RIGHT??
P.S. Of course i did format this content with ai. ...OR DID I?
(Actually I did, a little bit. But the frustration is 100% organic.)
Top comments (1)
I've always said that AI is a solution looking for a problem. I understand many people use AI. You only have to look at the majority of the posts here and on Hashnode to see that but it's not something I see myself using, especially in regard to writing. We really run the risk of creativity being lost.