(FYI, I’m intending to cross-post upcoming entries to Substack, in case it’s easier to follow there: https://seantime.substack.com/)
I now have a bit of free time on my hands, and have the itch to do some personal writing again, after roughly ten years of work-induced writer’s block. I acknowledge a bit of irony around starting to write again when generative AI technologies are commoditizing both content creation and authorial voice. It’s funny that you rarely get to dictate the timing of your opportunities.
However, after 15 years of working on some of the most scaled products in the world, it feels nice to get back to something a little more bespoke.
There’s clearly a place for generative AI in today’s content ecosystem, but there’s also a place for humans to do one of the most human things: to create and share things they can call their own. Even in a world of mass manufacturing, there’s a need for handcrafted goods.
To me, LLM technology is today both an extremely useful and nearly unavoidable tool. But like any tool, it should be used responsibly and the user must be clear what is being delegated in the tool’s usage.
This is my Non-AI Pact: nothing written by me on this channel will be created or edited by generative AI.