I first created this blog over five years ago. And it was short-lived - roughly a year?
Why am I writing now?
I’m not sure.
AI can do it faster, probably more articulated than what I’ll toss together, and maybe even be more engaging.
hmmmm…
Here’s the thing – what it really boils down to is that it’s not writing, it’s thinking - neither is wrong. What matters is…
I don’t want to live in a world where I’ve lost my own writing voice.
I’m also sick of reading a bunch of CPU word salad.
We’ve transitioned away from a world where once quality > quantity and/ or maybe there’s just so much noise now that it’s hard to separate the two.
Is AI going to transform everyone and anyone into DIY enthusiasts?
Maybe.
Maybe we’re in a period of high flux - the ground hasn’t settled yet.
Maybe there’s a difference between DIY and expertise.
Maybe not.
Is there a difference between hobby and craft?
Maybe AI ends up distilling that gap down much tighter than before.
Maybe we have a new digital divide - and without the right steering we might just be making the divide worse.
Maybe this is a new era of individuals who can be empowered to do, learn, and brainstorm though problems that weren’t possible before.
Who know’s what will happen - everyone else who claims to know the future doesn’t know either.
What I do know is I believe in individuals.
Everyone’s voice, opinion, expertise, thoughts, ideas, and experience has value.
I’m starting to feel like people don’t actually believe in that anymore.
Which is sad.
But isn’t surprising when there’s an enveloping wave of marketing and hype around AI causing more fear than hope and more greed than grace.
Guess what.
Some things never change.
There’s plenty of problems to solve in the world, plenty of people who have passions, and humanity has always built tools to help us solve problems.
We shouldn’t lose the plot.
And yet that doesn’t mean we avoid intention.
AI has a lot of moral and societal implications that need to be worked through.
And the dust will probably settle at some point - because the math ain’t mathin'.
What I DO know is I can run a small LLM on my personal laptop and it is useful tool.
And I believe in individuals using tools to solve problems.
We could live in the Starship Enterprise world of the “computer” ie AI being is a useful tool to everyone.
Counselor Troi researching cultures or Geordi La Forge working through a problem with the warp core.
Alternatively we’ve got those that look like they are racing for AI to toss them into the goobley-goop pods in the Matrix.
Tools can do awesome things.
But I’m personally a fan of tools being designed and leveraged to solve real problems - not made up ones.
Well this was just a rant - more productive or more interesting concepts hopefully to follow.
But now I’m writing.