It’s still worth blogging in the age of AI

It's still worth blogging in the age of AI My post about blogging as writing the tutorial that you wished you'd found really took off on Hacker News. There were a lot of excellent comments, but one thing kept coming up: what's the point in blogging if people are using ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek to spoon-feed them answers? Who, apart from the AIs, will read what you write? I was asking myself the same question when I started blogging semi-regularly again last year, and this post is an attempt to summarise why I decided that it was worthwhile. The TL;DR: blogging isn't just about being read -- it's about learning and thinking, and having a durable proof that you can do both. Let's start off by summarising the two big reasons to blog about what you've learned, as you learn: It helps you make your newly-gained knowledge concrete. It will help other people in the future -- they might be looking for the information you blogged about, and find it on your blog. When we're thinking abou ... Read full article.