🧭 The blog is back after a long silence. From here on I write with AI assistance — the thinking stays mine, the activation energy goes away — and I draw a clear, honest line between the hand-written era and the AI-assisted one.
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🌙 The long silence Link to heading
If you scroll down this blog, the most recent post is from November 2023. That’s a long time. The
blog went quiet — but it didn’t die. This post is me turning the lights back on and explaining what
happened, and what’s going to be different from here on.
Why I disappeared Link to heading
The honest answer is that the last couple of years were full. I changed role and I now work as an
AI Tech Lead. I went through an MBA. And on top of that there was the usual everything-else of
life. Writing slipped down the priority list, one busy month at a time.
The real bottleneck wasn’t time — it was the format Link to heading
Here’s the part I had to be honest with myself about. The problem was never only time. It was the
way I was writing.
Every post was researched, written, and polished end to end by hand, in English — a language
I’m not a native speaker of. That turned each article into a multi-evening project: get the idea,
fight the blank page, then fight the English, then edit, then publish. It was a fantastic way to
grow, and I don’t regret a single one of those posts. But the data is blunt: roughly one post a
year. At that rate, “writing by hand” wasn’t a principle anymore — it was the reason I stopped
writing.
🤖 What changes now: I’ll write with AI assistance Link to heading
So from this post on, I’ll write with the help of an AI assistant.
To be clear about what that does and doesn’t mean: I’m not outsourcing the thinking. The ideas, the
experiments, the opinions, the mistakes, and the final say stay mine. What AI removes is the
activation energy — drafting, restructuring, and smoothing my English — so the distance between “I
have something to say” and “it’s published” stops being a wall.
Why I think this is the right call Link to heading
A few reasons:
- It turns blogging from an all-or-nothing effort into something I can actually keep doing.
- It plays to where my work is heading anyway — I spend my days building with this technology, so
using it to write about it is consistent, not contradictory. - Done in the open, it doesn’t cost the reader anything in trust. Which brings me to the last point.
🔍 Transparency: a clear line in the blog Link to heading
I didn’t want to quietly switch and pretend nothing changed. Everything published before today
was written 100% by hand. Everything from here on is AI-assisted. To make that explicit, I added
a visual divider in the blog list that separates the two eras. No pretending — you always know which
is which.
What to expect Link to heading
More often. Still hands-on. Still my voice — just with a co-pilot handling the parts that used to
keep me from hitting publish.