I've been blogging on and off for 20 years.
When I was a teenager the motivation was very clear, I just wanted to share what I found. Like how to work around a bug in some old Nokia smartphone.
Lately I choose an ambitious project for myself in Swift/AVFoundation. I worked a lot on a single feature and I nailed it. I felt that again, I'm going to share it.
But then I felt sad, because I don't have any reasonable traffic to my blog and I know that the first one to see it will be a LLM's crawling bot.
And then it will be redistributed, no accreditation, not my words anymore. On top of that some AI company will be taking money for it, probably from a vibe-coder making an app similar to mine.
I don't feel like sharing know-how in 2026.
I think we are like any other industry right now.
When I was a teenager the motivation was very clear, I just wanted to share what I found. Like how to work around a bug in some old Nokia smartphone.
Lately I choose an ambitious project for myself in Swift/AVFoundation. I worked a lot on a single feature and I nailed it. I felt that again, I'm going to share it.
But then I felt sad, because I don't have any reasonable traffic to my blog and I know that the first one to see it will be a LLM's crawling bot.
And then it will be redistributed, no accreditation, not my words anymore. On top of that some AI company will be taking money for it, probably from a vibe-coder making an app similar to mine.
I don't feel like sharing know-how in 2026.
I think we are like any other industry right now.